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If I decrease my likelihood to die from cancer and heart-disease, which ones am I increasing?

• deleted 13y ago
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• sp332 13y ago
  Kidney failure. Also various accidents and disasters.
  • chc 13y ago
    Not at any point in time, you don't. You increase your risk of those things as t=∞ (because previously you might have died before they could happen), but your risk of those things does not increase at any point in time.
    • sp332 13y ago
      Oh, I see. Well if you start eating a lot of grapes, your chances of choking on a grape go up a lot :)
• dragonwriter 13y ago
  The actual study, rather than the headline, is about all-cause chance of dying at any point in time. So you aren't increasing any. Your chance of dying eventually of some cause is unaffected, and remains at 1.00.