a Department of Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada.
b Centre for Bone and Muscle Health, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada.
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2018 Apr;43(4):412-414. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2017-0653. Epub 2017 Dec 5.
Lithium in tap water was previously found to have life-extending effects across 18 Japanese municipalities. Using a larger dataset with several Texas counties, our study shows that lithium concentrations in tap water are negatively associated with all-cause mortality (r = -0.18, p = 0.006, 232 counties) and years of potential life lost (r = -0.22, p = 0.001, 214 counties). Thus, our present findings extend and reinforce lithium's purported life-prolonging effect in humans.
自来水中的锂此前被发现对日本 18 个市町村具有延长寿命的效果。利用一个包含德克萨斯州几个县的更大数据集，我们的研究表明，自来水中的锂浓度与全因死亡率（r = -0.18，p = 0.006，232 个县）和潜在寿命损失年数（r = -0.22，p = 0.001，214 个县）呈负相关。因此，我们目前的发现扩展并加强了锂在人类中据称具有的延长寿命的效果。
