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Sex-Related
Illnesses |
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When
it comes to health risks, sex does matter. Women
are twice as likely as men to get multiple sclerosis,
rheumatoid arthritis, and migraines. They're also
more likely to get cataracts, hepatitis, and thyroid
disease. Women experience depression about twice
as often as men. And irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
is thought to affect twice as many women as men.
Although men have more heart attacks than women,
more women die within a year after having a heart
attack.
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A sex-related illness is
an illness that occurs more common to one sex. Sex-related
illnesses have various causes:
- sex-linked genetic illnesses
- parts of the reproductive system that are specific to
one sex
- social causes that relate to the gender role expected
of that sex in a particular society.
- different levels of reporting or diagnosis in each gender.
Examples of sex-related illnesses in humans:
| Men: |
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prostate cancer and
other diseases of the male reproductive system occur
only in men. |
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certain genetic
diseases, such as colour blindness, occur more frequently
in men. They are caused by sex-linked, recessive
genes carried on the non-homologous portion of the
X chromosome. |
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Autism is 4 times
more prevalent in males than females. |
| Women: |
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99% of breast cancer
occurs in women |
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ovarian cancer,
and other diseases of the female reproductive system
occur only in women. endometriosis, another female
reproductive disorder occurs almost exclusively
in women, but has rarely been found in men undergoing
estrogen treatment for prostate cancer. |
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More women than
men suffer from Sjögren's syndrome, scleroderma,
and osteoporosis . |
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in Western cultures, more women
than men suffer from eating disorders such as anorexia
nervosa and bulimia . |
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Women
are more likely to suffer from unipolar clinical
depression (although bipolar disorder appears
to affect both sexes equally) . |
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Psychologists
are more likely to diagnose women than men
with borderline or histrionic personality
disorder. There is no current agreement on
whether this is because of a real underlying
difference between the sexes, or simply because
of deeply ingrained social attitudes. |
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Certain autoimmune
diseases may occur predominately in one sex,
for unknown reasons. For example 90% of primary
biliary cirrhosis cases are women, whereas
primary sclerosing cholangitis is more common
in men. |
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Some common diseases are also related to
sex, here is the list,
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| Stroke |
Women have fewer strokes, but are more
likely to die from them than men; women are generally
older than men when they have a stroke |
Heart attack |
Men have more, but women are more likely to die within
a year after a heart attack; women tend to get heart
disease seven to 10 years later than men |
Migraine |
Three times more common in women |
Depression |
Twice as common in women |
Hearing loss |
More common in men |
Nearsightedness (myopia) |
More common in women through age 60 |
Irritable bowel syndrome |
More common in women |
Cancer |
Cancer of the lungs, kidneys, bladder, and pancreas
are more common in men; thyroid cancer is more common
in women |
Osteoporosis |
More common in women |
Rheumatoid arthritis |
Two to three times more common in women |
Gout |
More common in men |
Lupus |
Nine times more common in women |
Fibromyalgia |
Nine times more common in women |
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