Cancer
Scientists at University Medical Center publish research in cancer
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 15th, 2007
Data detailed in "Innate handedness and disease-specific mortality in women" have been presented. "Left-handedness has been reported to be associated with reduced life expectancy, but the evidence is far from conclusive. We studied the association between innate handedness and total mortality, as well as cause-specific mortality, in a cohort of 12,178 middle-aged Dutch women who were followed for almost 13 years," scientists in Utrecht, Netherlands report.
"The relation between handedness and mortality was analyzed using Cox regression in a case-cohort approach, in which a random sample of 1500 women was used to represent person-years under observation for the entire...
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