Sex Differentials in Health and Mortality

Verbrugge, Lois M.; Wingard, Deborah L.; Submission, Haworth Continuing Features

doi:10.1300/j013v12n02_07

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“…Sex differences in health among adults have been explained in terms of the different roles, stresses, expectations, reporting behaviours, lifestyles and health practices, as well as biology, of males and females (e.g. Nathanson, 1975;Verbrugge, 1985;Verbrugge & Wingard, 1987;Miles, 1991, Mirowsky & Ross, 1995. The emergence of a female excess of depression during adolescence has been accounted for in similar terms, the suggestion being that females may be challenged by the expectations of the traditional female role in combination with more recent increases in educational expectations (West & Sweeting, submitted), while at the same time adopting a less instrumental coping style (Gove & Herb, 1974;Allgood-Merten et al, 1990;Petersen et al, 1991;Nolen-Hoeksema & Girgus, 1994;Cyranowski, Frank, Young & Shear, 2000).…”

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Sex differences in health at ages 11, 13 and 15

Sweeting

West

2003

Social Science & Medicine

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Sex differences in health at ages 11, 13 and 15

Sweeting

West

2003

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Women consistently report worse health than men do, 41 possibly because of cultural and social aspects associated with sex. For example, women are more involved than men with health care and with the monitoring of the health of …”

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Sex differences in health status after coronary artery bypass surgery

Vaccarino¹,

Lin²,

Kasl³

2004

ACC Current Journal Review

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Background-Although previous studies have shown functional improvements in patients who undergo coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, data are conflicting on whether the gains achieved by women are similar to or less than those achieved by men. Methods and Results-We compared physical and psychological functional gains and readmission rates between 777 men and 295 women who underwent first CABG consecutively between February 1999 and February 2001. Physical function and mental health were measured by means of the Short Form 36-Item Health Survey (SF-36). At 6 months, both men and women showed, on average, a significant improvement in physical function and mental health, but men improved significantly more than women. After adjustment for baseline characteristics, the mean score improvement in women was half that of men for physical function (7.3 versus 14.0, Pϭ0.0002) and 25% less than that of men for mental health (Ϫ3.0 versus 8.9, Pϭ0.026). The absolute rates of adverse outcomes, such as hospital readmission, worsening functional status, and worsening mental health, were significantly higher in women (32.6%, 25.7%, and 17.5%, respectively) than in men (21.2%, 11.1%, and 12.6%, respectively) and remained significantly different in multivariable analysis. Conclusions-CABG surgery is associated with lower functional gains and higher readmission rates in women compared with men 6 months after operation.

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“…Furthermore, health statistics (in the United States and Sweden) show a higher sickness absence, higher drug consumption, and higher health service consumption for women than men (Verbrugge and Wingard, 1987;Lundberg, 1990). It is assumed that one of the reasons why women experience more ill health is that they have many different roles and chores at home as well as at work which brings about a complex pattern of occupations.…”

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