Left Handers have double rate of bowel disorders
=== Left Handers have double rate of bowel disorders ===
The disorders dicussed below relate to auto-immune disorders, and this is not surprising since many (perhaps the majority) of the immune disorders start in the bowel with dysbiosis of the gut flora (infection). This is particularly true of the inflammatory disorders such as reactive arthritis (reiter's syndrome), rheumatoid arthritis, crohn's disease, eczema, allergies, asthma, etc.
This poll of over 100 people with Ankylosing Spondylitis revealed similar findings.. far more left handers than expected at around 15% as of Feb 2005:
http://asdata.no-ip.info/asdata
The disorders dicussed below relate to auto-immune disorders, and this is not surprising since many (perhaps the majority) of the immune disorders start in the bowel with dysbiosis of the gut flora (infection). This is particularly true of the inflammatory disorders such as reactive arthritis (reiter's syndrome), rheumatoid arthritis, crohn's disease, eczema, allergies, asthma, etc.
quote: from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/684236.stm
Title: Left-handers' bowel disease danger
Tuesday, 21 March, 2000, 00:59 GMT
"People who are left-handed are twice as likely as right-handers to suffer from bowel disease, claim scientists.
A study of more than 20,000 people in the UK found that the risk of inflammatory bowel disease - usually Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis - doubled in left-handed people.
Dr Danielle Morris
Although the prevalence of left-handedness in the general population is around one in ten, 21% of the people found to have inflammatory bowel disease were left-handed.
The research, by a team at the Royal Free Hospital and University College Medical School in London, comes after earlier studies showed left-handers are at increased risk of other conditions such as asthma and diabetes. "
Title: Left-handers' bowel disease danger
Tuesday, 21 March, 2000, 00:59 GMT
"People who are left-handed are twice as likely as right-handers to suffer from bowel disease, claim scientists.
A study of more than 20,000 people in the UK found that the risk of inflammatory bowel disease - usually Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis - doubled in left-handed people.
Dr Danielle Morris
Although the prevalence of left-handedness in the general population is around one in ten, 21% of the people found to have inflammatory bowel disease were left-handed.
The research, by a team at the Royal Free Hospital and University College Medical School in London, comes after earlier studies showed left-handers are at increased risk of other conditions such as asthma and diabetes. "
This poll of over 100 people with Ankylosing Spondylitis revealed similar findings.. far more left handers than expected at around 15% as of Feb 2005:
http://asdata.no-ip.info/asdata
