Women tend to live longer than men. But it wasn't always that way, a new study says.
Adults born in the late 19th century were the first to see men dying at much higher rates than women. So the gender difference in life expectancy is fairly recent, and probably isn't based on anatomy alone, researchers say.
In medical and public health circles, women's long lives relative to men's have often been considered "a given," said Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the lead author of the study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He decided to look back at population data to see whether that had always been true.
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because at some point "til death do us part" becomes a goal...
ReplyDeleteMen die first because we WANT to.
ReplyDeleteEver notice how fat guys have plenty of dates but fat girls don't? Women are expected to keep a better eye on their figure than men (though some don't). In the end, pun intended it may have saved many of us from cardiovascular disease. Guys, it's time to shape up!
ReplyDeleteAlcohol kills more men than women for obvious reasons.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at a lot of women, that's why men drink more. Fact is, God gave us men a brain and a penis but only enough blood to operate one at a time.
ReplyDeleteafter living with women, we WANT to go sooner!
ReplyDelete1:48.and 2:05..blame placing is the art of escape. But then so is getting drunk.
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