Individual behavioral differences in recovery from abdominal sepsis in rats

Paradoxically, men report better health and quality of life than women, but men experience higher mortality rates than women at most ages. One conclusion from these findings is that men have been selected to disregard signs of ill health, or even to deceive themselves about their health, to their detriment because presenting themselves as healthy has fitness benefits. We hypothesize that men have been sexually selected to present themselves to women as healthy but that the cost of not attending to their minor health problems results in earlier mortality than women. We present a review of the human and primate literature that supports health selection theory, the hypothesis that females have preferentially selected males who present themselves as healthy.

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Individual behavioral differences in recovery from abdominal sepsis in rats

Abstract: Improvement of sickness behavior in sepsis with G-CSF/antibiotic prophylaxis is a promising approach. The course of recovery from sepsis may depend on premorbid individual differences.

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Mortality of septic old and adult male mice correlates with individual differences in premorbid behavioral phenotype and acute-phase sickness behavior

Mortality of septic old and adult male mice correlates with individual differences in premorbid behavioral phenotype and acute-phase sickness behavior

Health Selection Theory: An Explanation for the Paradox between Perceived Male Well-Being and Mortality

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