Regardless of geographical or cultural boundaries, men die seven years earlier than women. Men are genetically and biologically predisposed to risky behavior and social norms that encourage or even demand it put them in jeopardy....CONTINUE READING
The following are some of the reasons why men outlive women.
Males have inherent genetic limitations.
In every cell of their body, men have one X and one smaller Y chromosome, but women have two large X chromosomes. Women’s bodies have “spare” X chromosomes, which enable them to compensate for damage in ways that men’s cells cannot.
Furthermore, Y chromosome mutations are three to six times more likely than X chromosomal mutations. This genetic defect could explain why men are more likely to experience miscarriages, infections, birth abnormalities, cancer, and several other health problems.
The womb is more harmful to boys.
In comparison to females, boys have a one-and-a-half to two-fold higher risk of dying at birth. A compromised immune system, a proclivity for immature lung development, insufficient blood flow to male babies, and a high vulnerability to maternal stress appear to be the culprits. Brain hemorrhages, congenital malformations, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections are more common in male newborns.
Boys are 14 percent more likely than girls to be born prematurely, and even at the same gestational age, boys have a higher risk of mortality and complications since girls develop faster during pregnancy.
Males are more prone to have developmental issues than girls.
Reading difficulties, hearing loss, autism, ADHD, blindness, seizure disorders, hyperactivity, clumsiness, stammering, and Tourette’s syndrome are all three to four times more common in boys than in girls. There are 10 males for every girl with Asperger’s syndrome, a mild type of autism.
Patients with major mental illnesses have a 10–25 year shorter life expectancy. People with schizophrenia have a mortality rate that is 2 to 2.5 times greater than the normal population, but people with depression have a 1.8-fold higher chance of dying young.
Men seek riskier jobs.
Sailors, firefighters, police officers, construction workers, and farmers are overwhelmingly men. In 2005, men were responsible for the vast majority (5328) of the 5,734 workplace deaths. Males still carry out the great majority of combat in armed conflicts.
Men who have worked in low-wage jobs with poor physical or psychosocial working conditions are more likely to live shorter lives and have poor physical and psychosocial health later in life.
Men are more likely than women to develop coronary artery disease.
Although symptoms in men often emerge around the age of 35, estrogen appears to shield women from heart disease until they are well into their middle years. To make matters worse, guys have naturally low HDL cholesterol levels. As a result, men account for 70% to 85% of all sudden cardiac events, and men die three times more frequently from coronary artery disease than women.
The reasons for this higher mortality rate in women are complex, but they include a larger risk factor burden, increased inflammatory factor participation, smaller coronary artery channel size, and frequently less active diabetic treatment.
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