Sex differences in mortality

Sex differences in mortality: results from a population-based study of ...

This study focused on participants aged 50 years or older in the 12 cohort studies with available mortality data.

Differences between Men and Women in Mortality and the Health ...

Male life expectancy is lower than female life expectancy in all countries (15, 16). Although the idea that men's mortality rates exceed those of women has been ...

Death rates at specific life stages mold the sex gap in life expectancy

Males at ages 15 to 40 die at rates that are often three times female levels, but this excess mortality is not the main cause of the life expectancy gap.

Sex differences in mortality among children, adolescents, and young ...

We aimed to estimate the sex ratio of mortality from birth to age 24 years and reconstruct trends in sex-specific mortality between 1990 and 2021 for 200 ...

The Gender Gap in U.S. Mortality | PRB

Today, women have lower mortality rates at every age. Men are three times as likely as women to die from injuries (unintentional injuries, suicide, or homicide ...

Sex Differences in Morbidity and Mortality - Princeton University

While some of the sex difference in mortality can be explained by differences in the distribu- tion of chronic conditions, an equally large share can be ...

Narrowing mortality gap between men and women over two decades

Compared to a ratio of 1.0 (sex equivalence), the age-adjusted male-to-female mortality ratio declined by 41.4%; falling from 1.47 to 1.28 over the 20 years.

12. Gender and mortality

Sex differential in mortality is the absolute difference of the male and female mortality parameters. Frame 2 shows that this indicator is fairly constant ...

Gender differences in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among ...

Men showed higher rates of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality compared to women in both the general population and the population with cardiovascular ...

Gender Disparities in Health and Mortality | PRB

Gender differences in mortality and life expectancy vary by country. But in most countries, men live shorter lives than women.

Sex Differences in Mortality After Myocardial Infarction - JAMA Network

Sex differences in myocardial infarction and coronary deaths in the Scottish MONICA population of Glasgow 1985 to 1991: presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and ...

Sex differences in human mortality: The role of genetic factors

There may be effects of male sex hormones on sex differences in behavior which contribute to males' higher death rates for accidents and other violent causes.

Mortality and morbidity in ageing men: Biology, Lifestyle and ...

Sex differences in the prevalence of diseases and conditions generally indicate that men have a higher prevalence of more lethal conditions, ...

Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across ...

Here, we demonstrate that, in the wild, mammalian females live longer than males but we did not detect any sex differences in aging rates.

Sex Differences in Mortality - jstor

Although these genetic differences may confer some benefit on females in infancy and early childhood, they do not readily account for the differences in deaths ...

Sex-differences in COVID-19 associated excess mortality is not ...

Worldwide, a higher number of deaths among confirmed COVID-19 cases have been reported for males than for females resulting in a sex-difference ...

Understanding Differences in Mortality and Morbidity by Sex

Life expectancy is higher for women than men, yet women suffer from worse health, a phenomenon known as the “morbidity paradox.”

Patterns in age and cause of death contribution to the sex gap in life ...

Women live longer than men and the absolute difference between male and female mortality risk reaches its maximum at old ages.

Social, behavioral, and biological factors, and sex differences in ...

Nevertheless, persistent sex differences in mortality remain: compared with women, men have 30% to 83% higher risks of death over the follow-up ...

The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations ...

Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances.