People With This Blood Type May Live Longer Than Others… But What Does Science Really Say?

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 information with that of 2,330 middle-aged individuals.

The researchers found no statistically significant differences in the