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Season of Birth and Human Longevity 出生的季节与人类的长寿
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Nov 13, 2009 9:05 pm
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A post by dcba9696 stating that studies have shown that people of virtue and with high moral standards tend to have long life span.
I was trying to find out what kind of studies had been done about this, and came cross with this interesting article about season of birth and human longevity that was published on Journey of Anti-aging Medicine by a group at Center on Aging in University of Chicago ten years ago.
After studying more than four thousand cases, making adjustment for the effect of all other explanatory factors and complicated statistical analyzing, the group concluded (as it shows in the figure) that the month of birth is an important predictor for adult women’s life span. In particular, women born in May (399 cases) lived 3.61 +/- 0.93 years longer compared to those born in August (significant at p < 0.001).The second peak of longevity is observed for women born in December (388 cases), who lived 3.21+/-0.94 years longer than those born in August (significant at p<0.001).
读了吉祥大师的帖子研究发现道德高尚者更容易长寿，我试图寻找了解那些相关的研究。然后，看到这篇出生的季节与寿命关系的文章。这是芝加哥大学老化中心的一个研究小组十年前发表在《抗老化杂志》上的一篇文章。
经过对四千多例研究对象的追踪考察，筛选其他所有考虑到的可能的影响因素，经过繁琐复杂的统计学分析，这个小组得到结论，出生月份是预测30岁以上成年妇女寿命的一个重要因素。如图中显示，与八月出生的人相比（图中的最低点），五月出生的人寿命要长3.61年，十二月出生的人的寿命要长3.21年。
图中横坐标的第一个月份是二月
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