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Interesting. But the study only looks at hospitalization. Is it possible that women are more likely to go to the hospital than men?
by chrismcb 9y ago
Interesting. But the study only looks at hospitalization. Is it possible that women are more likely to go to the hospital than men?
- megaman22 9y agoHospital? I'm not sure... But women are much more likely to see a doctor regularly than men are.
- PeachPlum 9y agoMen kill themselves.
- wvh 9y agoI reckon men with mental issues tend to end up in jail in many cases.
- jacquesm 9y agoDrugs too, homeless as well.
- Bartweiss 9y agoYes, but doesn't the genetic control here also control for that? They compared first children of refugees to their first-cousins born to non-refugees, and found a difference in frequency. So presumably a change would still be detected if sons of refugees were less likely than daughters to be hospitalized. (I can think of some other ways gender could mess this up, I guess. For instance: schizophrenia is more common in men, heavily genetic, and probably not affected by refugee status - which could create a "base load" of male hospitalizations that pushes any change among men below significance.) Also striking, though: "was not true for male offspring or the descendents of men." The headline misses it, but this result was only for daughters of mothers; even daughters of fathers (i.e. people with female hospitalization rates) weren't affected. That's the part that screams 'epigenetics' to me.