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The investigation showed that men are more likely to be involved in a car crash while women tend to suffer more from anxiety and depression. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), males live up to 69 years of age while females generally reach 74 . But a new study has revealed how sex and gender shape our health and longevity.
Being male or female interacts with other variables, such as race, socio-economic status, age, or sexual orientation, increasing the risk of different diseases and varying life expectancy. , published in The Lancet, concluded that men experience a greater degree of health loss and have a higher burden of diseases that lead to premature death, but that women suffer more pathologies that impair their quality of life in later life. Females suffer a higher rate of lower back pain, headaches, and depressive disorders, affecting their day-to-day routines.
Men, on the other hand, are more likely to have heart problems or be involved in a car crash. Both sex, which determines the biological factors associated with sex chromosomes and reproductive anatomy, and gender, which refers to a social construct that relates to the socially ascribed roles and behaviours of men and women and gender-diverse people, shape health. And the latter is thought to start when we are teenagers.
"Most illnesses that disproportionately affect females or males, such as depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and road injuries, begin to differentiate in adolescence," the auth.
