title: [Musics and longevity].
abstract: The data on mean age of death of 8,775 musicians (7,371 males and 1,404 females)--composers, conductors, singers, pianists, violinists, etc.) are presented in the paper. Women lived longer than men in any studied categories (p < 0.02). The 3 first places of long-livers among men were belonging to conductors (71.1 yrs., n = 1,435), players on chello (70.0 yrs, n = 260) and on violin (70.0; n = 735). Rock-musicians, and author's song singer lived less than other categories (45.0 yrs, n = 421; 54.0 yrs, n = 428, respectively). Among women leading long-livers were harp-players (80.9 yrs., n = 32), clavesin-players (79.9 yrs, n = 17), and conductors (79.6 yrs., n = 24). The mean age of death in women rock-musicians was 37.7 yrs. (n = 37), in author song's singers--49.6 yrs. (n = 67), in guitarists--54.4 yrs. (n = 9). Relative number of nonagenarians (90+) was much higher among women as compared to men. The values were as 43.75% of harp-players, 29.17% of conductors, 19.50% of violinists among women and nobody from rock-musicians and guitar players survived 90 yrs. In men, 7.30% violinists, 6.62% of conductors and 6.54% of cello-players survived 90+ years. Honors give advantage for survival--"People artists" men-composers survived 8.7 yrs longer than ordinary composers, whereas women-composers with this honor lived 18.1 yrs longer than non awarded composers. Opera singers ,"People artists"-men live longer 5.3 yrs, and women-by 6.6 yrs longer than their no-honored colleagues. For estrada singers these differences were 8.0 yrs for men and 20.1 yrs. for women.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Zharinov
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Anisimov
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality; D009146:Music; D009790:Occupations / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors