Reporter Ha Su-min of Money Today | 2023.04.18 15:14
Research has shown that middle-aged men who are not interested in women live shorter lives than men who are not interested in women.
On the 8th, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reported the results of a study conducted by Professor Kaori Sakurada’s team at Yamagata University School of Medicine on about 20,000 residents (7,700 males and 11,400 females) of Yamagata Prefecture.
The study was conducted for about 9 years from 2009 on current residents aged 40 or older who received annual health checkups.
The research team asked subjects about their level of interest in the opposite sex, their medical history, and their level of psychological stress, and studied the correlation between these factors and the risk of death.
As a result of the survey, 8.3% of men and 16.1% of women answered that they were not interested in the opposite sex. Of these, 9.6% of men who said they were not interested in women died during the study period. In contrast, men who still said they were sexually interested in the opposite sex had a mortality rate of 5.6%.
Even when other factors, such as age and chronic disease, were taken into account, the research team concluded that the results of the study show that men’s mortality varies greatly depending on their interest in the opposite sex.
Unlike middle-aged men, middle-aged women found no association between sexual interest and mortality.
Professor Sakurada, who led the study, said, “Interacting with people around you, including the opposite sex, is good for mental health.”
Meanwhile, the study was introduced in the US online scientific journal ‘Plos One’ in December last year.
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