Left-Handed Women Face A Higher Risk Of Death

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-2-2007

[blam]

Left-handed women have higher risk of breast cancer

[originalbuckeye]

My mom was left-handed. She passed away a year ago just one month shy of her 81st birthday. The scaremongers will try anything to frighten us!

[dsrtsage]

women and minorities hardest hit

[Strategerist]

My mom was left-handed. She passed away a year ago just one month shy of her 81st birthday. The scaremongers will try anything to frighten us!

That you run across people that smoked like chimneys and live into their 90s doesn't mean smoking doesn't kill a lot of people. Individual anecdotes don't beat masses of evidence.

I'm left handed, but male.

[NY Attitude]

Some say that left handed women are in their right mind. 8^).

[lafroste]

My mom was also left handed, and passed away at the age of 88. I am left handed. Wait, I’ve got a pain in my chest...BRB

[fkabuckeyesrule]

My oldest sister is left handed. As am I. She’s like 60 something.

[luckystarmom]

One of my daughters is left-handed. She is a mirror-image twin, so she has the same genetic make-up as her sister.

They are only 10, and alive and kicking. However, she did almost die as a baby. She was on a ventilator for a month, and her sister was on one for a week. She is also about 10 pounds heavier than her sister. I almost wonder if that has something to do with it. Maybe left-handed women are not as active (something to do with how active they are).

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****Wait, I’ve got a pain in my chest...BRB****

No no no baseball teams can always use a left handed relief pitcher.

[ClearCase_guy]

Risk of death is 100% for everyone.

But perhaps it's true that left-handed women have shorter life expectancies. We should ask the actuaries.

[Cicero]

I’m curious whether left-handed men are at greater risk.

Did this study omit men because they are not at risk, or more likely because in this feminist age, nobody cares?

[A message]

That would now be women especially left handed women and minorities hardest hit.

[Chode]

old white men found responsible...

[VA40]

Atleast until 1960s left handers were forced to learn to write with their right hand. I think a lot of older true left handers are being counted as right handed, hince their decreased representation in the older population. I am left handed and remember as a child my grandmother arguing with my mother not to “let me” keep using my left hand.

[Betteboop]

OK..I’m left-handed as is my younger daughter, her boyfriend, my husband, my son-in-law. Only my older daughter is right handed......this is BS.....maybe we all ought to be studied!!

[Strategerist]

I think a lot of older true left handers are being counted as right handed, hince their decreased representation in the older population. I am left handed and remember as a child my grandmother arguing with my mother not to “let me” keep using my left hand.

Excellent theory - I have a (much, much) older brother in his 40s that I've heard may have been forcibly converted in school. Also has a bad stutter.

[EGPWS]

Left-handed women are at a higher risk of dying, particularly from cancer and circulatory diseases, a study has suggested.

Oh..oh, another "right" wing conspiracy?

[PTBAA]

Do left-handed women really have a risk of death greater than 100%?

[Michael A. Velli]

There's a reason that the Latin word for "left" is sinister.