The Weaker Sex
By MAGGIE JONES
<a href="
http://boysproject.net">The Boys Project</a>
Men start out ahead: 115 males are conceived for every 100 females. But it's downhill from there.
• The male fetus is at greater risk of miscarriage and stillbirth.
• Male births slightly outnumber female births (about 105 to 100), but boys have a higher death rate if born premature: 22 percent compared with 15 percent for girls.
• Overall, more newborn males die than females (5 to 4).
• Sudden infant death syndrome is one and a half times as common in boys as in girls.
• Boys are three to four times as likely to be autistic.
• Boys are three times as likely to have Tourette's syndrome.
• Mental retardation afflicts one and a half times as many boys as girls.
• Dyslexia is diagnosed two to three times as often in boys as girls.
• As teenagers, boys die at twice the rate of girls.
• Boys ages 15-19 are five times as likely to die in a homicide.
• Boys ages 15-19 are almost 11 times as likely to die by drowning.
• Boys ages 16-19 are nearly twice as likely to die from a car accident.
• Men are 16 times as likely as women to be colorblind.
• Men suffer hearing loss at twice the rate of women.
• Though women attempt suicide two to three times as often as men, four times as many men actually kill themselves.
• The male hormone testosterone is linked to elevations of LDL, the bad cholesterol, as well as declines in HDL, the good cholesterol.
• Men have fewer infection-fighting T-cells and are thought to have weaker immune systems than women.
• Men have a higher death rate from pneumonia and influenza than women.
• By the age of 36, women outnumber men.
• Men ages 55-64 are twice as likely as women to die in car accidents.
• Men ages 55-74 are twice as likely as women to die of heart disease.
• In the United States, men are twice as likely to die from parasite-related diseases (in part, some speculate, because their greater average size may offer parasites a bigger target).
• Among people 65 and older, men account for 84 percent of suicides.
• Stroke, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and accidents -- all among the top causes of death -- kill men at a higher rate than women.
• American men typically die almost six years before women do.
• By the age of 100, women outnumber men eight to one.
• The good news? Men who live to be 100 tend to be in better shape than their centenarian female counterparts.
Copyright 2003 <a href="
http://www.nytimes.com">The New York Times Company</a>
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