3/7/2008
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.
Don’t forget to mark this on your calendar. St. John’s Life Fair is set for Saturday, March 29th from 8 to noon at the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center at MSSU. Join us for free laboratory and health screenings, seminars, and informational booths. Then stay for our special guest speaker, actor Jamie Farr from the hit TV show MASH. For more information about St. John’s Life Fair, call St. John’s Referral One at 625-2000 or log onto stj.com.
