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Spit test could predict life expectancy

23-Dec-2015

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Lower levels of antibodies in saliva are associated with of an elevated risk of mortality.

Study highlighted underlying association between secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) and cancer mortality.

639 adults aged 63 years old at the time of saliva sampling in 1995 tracked over 19 years.

The study was published in the PLOS ONE journal.

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Anna Whittaker

Professor of Behavioural Medicine at University of Stirling.

PLOS ONE

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Life Expectancy