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I remember a paper long time ago that claimed that one reason why women have higher life spans than men is lower iron content in their blood due to menstruation
by fyt2024 2y ago
I remember a paper long time ago that claimed that one reason why women have higher life spans than men is lower iron content in their blood due to menstruation.
- homarano 2y agoWomen have a consistently lower mortality rate than men at all ages 20-80 with no notable change around menopause. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mortality-rate-for-men-and-women-1996-99-by-age-per-10-000-log-scale_fig1_233296283 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mortality-rate-for-men-a...
- DiscourseFan 2y agoMen tend to be in higher risk situations more often than women.
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- averageRoyalty 2y agoPlease refrain from personal attacks.
- QuercusMax 2y agoHere's an interesting article that talks about sexual differences in life span, which seems to be correlated with the size of the sex chromosome: https://www.science.org/content/article/secret-long-life-matching-sex-chromosomes https://www.science.org/content/article/secret-long-life-mat... Basically, for whatever reason, a larger sex chromosome (X is much bigger than Y) confers a better chance of survival.
- tuatoru 2y agoI thought it was because females have two copies of the X, so defects in a region of one copy can be compensated for by the other. RAID-1 ftw.
- DiscourseFan 2y ago>This unevenness hints that factors other than the presence of certain sex chromosomes might also strongly influence longevity, the team says. One of these factors could be sexual selection. Exaggerated physical traits and elaborate behaviors make males of some species more attractive to females but require large amounts of energy and take a toll on overall health. Perhaps the riskiness of male behavior in humans is built in at the chromosonal level...