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    2 months ago

    You have the finding back-to-front

    “The researchers found that men with the highest fitness levels had a 53 per cent lower risk of dying in random accidents.”

    The paper suggests there may be some factor or combination that causes physical fitness, low disease mortality, and low accident risk - rather than physical fitness itself causing low disease mortality