1. Left‐handers have a lower prevalence of arthritis and ulcer
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Wysocki Cj and I. C. McManus
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Adult ,Male ,Peptic Ulcer ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Allergy ,Arthritis ,Functional Laterality ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Internal medicine ,Diabetes Mellitus ,Hypersensitivity ,Odds Ratio ,medicine ,Humans ,General Psychology ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Left handed ,business.industry ,Incidence ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Health Surveys ,United States ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Hypertension ,Lower prevalence ,Large study ,Female ,business - Abstract
In a very large study (N = 1,247,344), left-handedness showed no association with allergies overall (and an inconsistent association with individual allergies), but there was strong evidence that left-handers had lower rates of arthritis and ulcer--Arthritis: Odds-ratio (OR) = 0.942, 95% CI 0.922-0.962; Ulcer: OR = 0.920, 95% CI 0.896-0.944.
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- 2005
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