People with this blood type are more likely to live to 100 years old…see more

groups of 269 Japanese people who had reached at least 100 years of age.

Researchers compared them with more than 7,000 individuals from the general population.

They found that blood type B appeared more frequently among the centenarians than among the comparison group.

This raised an interesting possibility: Could blood type B be associated with exceptional longevity?

However, the study only identified an association within a particular population. It did not establish that having type B blood causes people to live longer.

Other research has produced different findings.

A 2020 study involving 2,201 Chinese centenarians compared their genetic blood group