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- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
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- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 15:18:57 CST
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- In article <1993Jan1.032047.18124@panix.com>
- gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
-
- >About the length of lives: men have a higher metabolic rate
- >(on the average) than women. Thus it seems likely that their
- >bodies wear out faster. One could disprove this by showing
- >some social arrangement where men lived longer than women,
- >other things being equal; but I don't know of one.
- >--
- Women are less likely to develop heart disease prior to menopause
- due to the action of estrogen (it retards the build-up of cholesterol in
- the arteries). This means that, on the average, men have a 30-40 year
- 'head start' on diseases of the vascular system, such as stroke, angina,
- and general hardening of the arteries. Also, until the last decade or so,
- a higher percentage of men than women smoked, which translated into a
- higher mortality rate.
- Prior to the modern, *sterile* age of obstetrics, the mortality rate
- associated with childbirth made the average lifespan of women much lower
- than men.
- (please add any qualifiers I may have missed! ;) )
- Diane
-