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Keeping domestic animals or pets

Exposure

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  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funders: Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province and 1 more
  • Humans1

Associations

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Disability

downin humans1HR 0.64

1 study

  1. Keeping domestic animals or pets lower the risk of disability in humans (HR 0.64 (0.58-0.70)).

    “keeping domestic animals or pets, playing cards or mahjong, reading books or newspapers, and watching TV or listening to the radio had a lower risk of disability, with HRs of 0.78 (0.69-0.88), 0.64”

    Humansmean 4.2 yearsn = 14,039

    Leisure-time activities and disability among Chinese community-dwelling oldest old: evidence from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Study

    European journal of public healthSep 10, 2024

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