Left Handedness

General
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Part of my business involves customers that paint cars. I swear that at least 25% of the people that paint cars for a living are lefties.I find this interesting. My daughter and one of my sons write left handed but do everything else like throw with their right hands.

Today my daughter received her pump training. Her trainer is a lefty and type 1. The trainer's husband is also a lefty and type 1. Of course this is a very tiny sample but it made me wonder if there might be a relationship between being left handed and being type 1. Being left handed raises your chances of having allergies and other conditions.

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I seriously have always wondered that. I'm type 1 and a lefty. I used to attend diabetes camp, and a lot of the ather kids there were lefties too. STRANGE.

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[quote user="Terry"]Being left handed raises your chances of having allergies and other conditions.[/quote]

I am confused by this statement. Is it being left handed that raises your chances or that people with already high chance of allergies and other conditions are more prone to be left handed? What are the other conditions too. I am not left handed, just a curious juvenator. 

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i'm with dan! i'd like to know how too :)

I'm not left handed, i'm right handed. i dont see how being diabetic could be linked by which hand you use...

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I'm left handed :) I don't know if being left handed and having diabetes are linked, but it's a proven fact that we lefties are way more beautiful and smart ;)

 

(sarcasm before anyone flips haha)

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LEFTY WITH TYPE 1!

 

And Lindsay's stats are true.  I've seen the research.  Plus like 4 out of the last 5 U.S. Presidents are lefties.

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I agree with Lindsay and Ideen. Lefties are awesome. Like Ideen said I am a "LEFTY WITH TYPE 1!"

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I was forced to write with my right hand even tho I was writing good with my left when I was in school during the 1970's. I could have been lefthanded all these years. And it does have something to do with type 1 diabetes.

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I'm a lefty and Type 1. My sister is a righty and Type 1.

No correlation.

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http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=left+handedness+diabetes&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

 

There is an association it seems. Not exactly left handedness but being less strongly right handed and ambidextrous seem to

have an association with type 1 and some other autoimmune diseases. Lefties are more likely to be injured in accidents, have IQ's that are either really high or really low, tend to be good looking and prone to allergies. 

4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed

1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed - 250% more than the normal level.

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Lefty here also...(writing, teeth brushing, and eating only.  something about small utensils).

Jason

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[quote user="Terry"]

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=left+handedness+diabetes&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

 

There is an association it seems. Not exactly left handedness but being less strongly right handed and ambidextrous seem to

have an association with type 1 and some other autoimmune diseases. Lefties are more likely to be injured in accidents, have IQ's that are either really high or really low, tend to be good looking and prone to allergies. 

4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed

1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed - 250% more than the normal level.

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That trumps my jumped to conclusion of 'no correlation.' I guess what convinced me was the good looking part. *brushes shoulder off*

I had read something a few years ago about lefties being "less evolved" than right handed folk and therefore prone to earlier death, diseases, etc. Can't find the citation at the moment

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never thought about that but im a lefty n type 1 n the few ppl i kno with type 1 are left handed except 1 out of 4

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Interesting..My husband is T1 and right handed. My 3 yr old is T1 and although he is still fairly young, uses both hands.

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The articles I browsed mentioned that left handed people tend to have allergies more often than right handed people. Because it

is likely people are born with with their hand preference then they are also most likely born with their allergy issues too.There is no mention

that one causes the other. Just that they appear together.

 

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wow i never thought about this, but im a leftie! one of my friends is both a type 1 and a lefty also!

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I Googled "left handed, type 1 diabetes" and only one post suggested there is any correlation. That one post is okcpwd1's post in this discussion. A Googlebot picked it up and it is there on the first Google page for this topic. Lol!

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I'm a rightie...I'm interested to know about any correlations though because I have heard of left-handed people being more prone to certain conditions, etc.

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I think I had heard something about this a few years ago ... can;t remember where. But, it could have been a preliminary study, I don't remember it being a definite corrolation.

(I'm a rightie and have TONS of allergy problems -- oh well)

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Richard.

When I Google it I get this.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=left+handedness+diabetes&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

75,000 results