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by pm90 356 days ago
While genetics might play a small role for very specific reasons (eg a society thats prone to sickle cell disease will likely live shorter), there’s no such difference in large, diversified populations like US/Europe.
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I guess pale people and/or bald people could die younger due to skin cancer? I know I need to be really careful since losing my hair.
And most of the US gets a lot more sun exposure than most of europe. Also African americans...Well just black people in this context are more than twice as likely to get prostate cancer (more like 3 times given lower detection i've heard it said) supposedly because they have higher testosterone.