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Left-handedness means you wona't live longer!

left handed woman 64If you are woman, who accomplish most of your daily works with your left hand then you can be at an increased risk of dying, particularly from cancer and cerebrovascular disease- damage to an artery in the brain or an artery that supplies blood to the brain. Dutch researchers came up with this postulation after studying about 12,178 middle-aged women for nearly 13 years. According to the findings of this report: a€ Lefties had a 40 per cent higher risk of dying form any cause. a€ In which 70 per cent higher chances of dying were from cancer. a€ 30 per cent higher chances of dying from diseases of the circulatory system. a€ Left-handed women were two times more vulnerable to die of breast cancer than women who werena’t left-handed. a€ Such women were at five times increased risk of dying form colorectal cancer. a€ Risk of cerebrovascular mortality was three-fold higher in left-handed women. On the basis of these facts, it could certainly be said that left-handed women are at an increased risk when it comes to dying from some deadly diseases. However, underlying mechanisms remain elusive, raising many questions about the credibility of this study. Perhaps, that is the reason why some critics are depicting it merely as a chance finding. Dr. Olga Basso, who is left-handed, and is one of the critics of this study, remarks about this study:

I am not alone in thinking that the literature on handedness suffers from a number of ills.

In addition, this study is silent about the impact of left-handedness over men, therefore, defining this study unbalanced, wona’t be wrong. However, this fact can also not be ignored that this is not the first study that has come out with such findings as some studies conducted earlier on this issue have also propounded the same thing. For instance, a study shows that left-handedness may be linked to increased risk of breast cancer. It somewhere also stresses the need of deep analysis over this issue because only then unambiguous reality would come out, piercing the thick haze of doubts that is making the whole such findings quite muzzy. Image Via: CNN

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