3/7/2007
OK – so it’s a known fact that women are 33% more likely than men to visit a doctor in general. But this might just change your mind guys. A new report shows that men die at higher rates than women from the top 10 causes of death - heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, accidents, pneumonia and influenza, diabetes, suicide, kidney disease, and chronic liver disease. Men also die younger than women. In 1920, women outlived men only by one year. Today, the CDC says on average, women survive men by over five years. The biggest problem that men have is not so much a specific disease, but the diseases are the result of lack of health care monitoring earlier in life. So in other words, go to the doctor sooner rather than later.
