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To: LindyBill who wrote (371356)	7/2/2010 3:42:48 PM
From: goldworldnet	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794635

Insurers will use all statistics and data available to them, but you may find this interesting. ...there is a very large ongoing study of over 8000 men called the ‘Honolulu-Asia Aging Study' where the researchers have followed these men for 30 years so far. They had full data on the men in the study including their blood types. Lynne and I contacted Dr. Lon White who was one of the researchers in this study (an epidemiologist) and requested ABO info from him in February of 2000. At that time, the men in the study were all 80 years old or more. Dr. White responded that he had checked, and there was NO ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ABO TYPE AND LONGEVITY. There were still over 3000 surviving members, and their blood types were a match for the percentages of ABO types in the beginning of the study. In other words, it did not matter if you were an A or an O, or a B, survival chances were equal, and therefore dependent on factors other than ABO type. Then there is another interesting recent study, done in 2003 which examined centenarians in Italy. The result of this study was published and it shows that the percentage of O's were equal to their percentage in the general world population, 43%. The remaining 57% of centenarians were A's, B's and AB's. owenfoundation.com * * *