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Left-handedness and mortality.

Author(s) -

M. E. Salive,

Jack M. Guralnik,

Robert J. Glynn

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.83.2.265

Subject(s) - laterality , confidence interval , demography , medicine , odds ratio , cohort , cohort study , odds , gerontology , logistic regression , audiology , sociology

We examined mortality associated with handedness in two ways. A simulation using national data suggests that lower mean age at death among left-handed persons, previously offered as evidence of higher mortality, can be explained exclusively by the age distribution of laterality. Second, empiric evidence from a 6-year cohort study of 3774 older adults from East Boston, Massachusetts, demonstrates that left-handedness is not associated with mortality (relative odds = 1.04, 95% confidence interval = 0.79, 1.36).

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