Sunday, January 16, 2011

SMELLING ABILITY LINKED TO DEATH

 

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Scientists from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago found that the more everyday odours you can identify, the more likely you are to be alive several years later.

The team gave more than 1,000 volunteers from 50 all the way up to 100years old, a standard 12-item smell test, then followed the participants for four years. During this period, 321 individuals or 27.6 per cent died.

Amazingly, they found that the risk of death was 36 per cent higher for those who only got six of the answers correct compared to those who managed to identify 11 out of 12.

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