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Women far healthier than men, live longer: BHP..
July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Bureau of Health Promotion (BHP) yesterday announced the results of the comparison between men and women on health. It showed that women are far healthier than men. BHP compared the average life expectancy, death rates of top diseases, risk factors, health awareness, medical behaviors and health inspections, and found out that women are better than men in all aspects.
According to Chiou Shu-ti, director-general of BHP, men always have shorter life expectancy than women, and the difference has been increasing, from 4.1 years in 1960 to 6.6 years in 2009. In the top ten fatal diseases, there are more male patients than female patients in nine diseases, with the only exception of diabetes.
More men get the three highs (hypertension, high blood cholesterol, high blood sugar), metabolism syndrome and chronic kidney disease than women. For instance, 27.2 percent of male above age 20 have hypertension, while only 21.4 percent of female in the same age group have it.
The results also showed that men have worse health awareness than women, as they go to clinics and have health checks less often, yet has an equal use of emergency services and have more hospital stays.
Also, more men smoke and eat betel nuts, and more men are overweight and obese.
BHP has now on their website “Father’s Day Electronic Health Cards” for the public to download, so that children can sign and give it to their fathers to remind them the importance of health.