Hand it to you

摘要

From Graham Cox I was surprised that length of the lifeline in the palm of your hand was not mentioned in your look at predicting longevity (10 December, p 46). In "Relationship between longevity and lifeline: a manual study of 100 patients", P. G. Newrick, E. Affie and R. J. Corrall of the Department of Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary, established "a highly significant association between the two" after controlling for hand size in a study carried out at autopsy.