title: On the relationship between handedness and longevity.
abstract: During the past five years, there have been numerous studies of the relationship between handedness and longevity. In this report, I review previous contributions and use methods of survival analysis on a set of 4,448 males to determine the strength of the relationship between handedness and longevity. The results indicate that left-handers have small, yet significant, declines in survival probabilities between the ages of 65 and 85.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo 14260.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Rogerson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012016:Reference Values; D016019:Survival Analysis