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Re:To Delay Death, Lift Weights by gHosts on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:23AM (#23867005)
> confirming the inverse relationship between strength and all cause mortality

Ahh, but which way does the relationship go..?

Unsurprisingly if I'm dying of something really serious and lying in bed sick as a dog.....

...I lose muscle mass.

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Re:To Delay Death, Lift Weights by cheald on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:56AM (#23871193)
These studies are generally longitudinal studies across a number of years, where greater muscle mass or strength early in the study correlates with lower all-cause mortality across the duration of the study. It's not looking at survival rates for acute afflictions.

Examples:

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6427792/

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12242311/

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10795731/

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11984288/

(There are many, many more of these, and they all seem to agree)

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Re:To Delay Death, Lift Weights by gHosts on Sunday July 19, 2020 @11:45PM (#23894497)
Correlation is not causation.
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Re:To Delay Death, Lift Weights by cheald on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @07:43PM (#23922757)
Of course. But given the high correlation, pursuing strength seems likely to produce the benefits of whatever the final cause happens to be.
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