In a variety of topics/statistics, women life expectancy is significantly greater than men. Is there any particular immune system that is in work?
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Heart Disease
About 1 in 4 men will die from heart disease generally in the form of a heart attack while only 1 in 5 women will die from it.
While 1 in 4 vs 1 in 5 sounds pretty close, its enough to pull the average lifespan of men down by a couple years and create the gap you see.
There are other factors like accidents and suicides which influence the younger age groups of both sides significantly, but once you start looking at older groups (45+) the chance of a man having a heart attack becomes sooo high that it skews the entire average.
Why are men so much more likely to have a heart attack? It seems the research is still open on that
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