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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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