![]() The authors noted that 46 percent of men between 25 and 34 years of age were overweight or obese versus 25% of women. And this, in turn, has been associated with increasing rates of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes, as well as fat-associated cancers such as prostate, bowel, liver and kidney. In Europe, as in the US, obesity has been increasing. Men are three times more likely than women to die in motor vehicle accidents. For example, men were, on average, 50 percent more likely to smoke than women and twice as likely to have chronic liver disease caused by excess alcohol consumption.Įighty-two percent of deaths due to drug overdose occurred in men and men were four times as likely to commit suicide. The report found that men are more likely to smoke, drink more alcohol, eat a less healthy diet, and engage in other risky behaviors than women. Male cancer survival was also worse, 47 percent versus 56 percent for women. As with cardiovascular disease, this is largely due to lifestyle and behavioral differences between men and women. These include cancer of the lung, bladder, and colon. With regard to cancer, men were found to develop cancers earlier that should affect men and women equally. Men were much more likely to develop heart disease at an earlier age and die of heart attacks. And this was largely due to preventable causes such as smoking. They concluded that, “This variability demonstrates that men’s health disadvantage is not biological inevitability.” The greatest contributor to the disparity between the life expectancies of men and women in the EU report was premature death in working age men (15-64 years) with 630,000 men in this group dying annually compared to 300,000 women.Ĭardiovascular disease was the greatest single cause of premature death. ![]() ![]() Many of these differences can be traced to specific behaviors and lifestyle choices. The authors found significant disparities in men’s health and women’s health among men in different countries and among men in different groups within the same country. It includes statistics on various cancers, alcohol and tobacco use. The report details life expectancy, causes of death, and the prevalence of important chronic health conditions in 34 European countries. That began to change with the publication in 2011 of the European Union’s comprehensive report on The State of Men’s Health in Europe. Until recently, our understanding of health issues affecting men specifically has been hampered by the lack of systematic scientific inquiry into the unique ways that health and disease affect men. But new evidence indicates that this may not be the case. The assumption in the past was that biological differences between men and women were sufficient to account for men’s shorter life expectancy. While men have shorter life expectancies than women, little is understood about why. In fact, this bears out in every country in every region of the world for which statistics are available (with the sole exception of the tiny state of Qatar). ![]() According to a 2013 report from the Nation Center for Health Statistics, the life expectancy for males born in 2011 is 76.3 years. When it comes to men’s health, it has been well known for years that men do not live as long as women.
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