Men are at higher risk for many serious diseases, including heart disease, lung cancer, and HIV. Men also face unique health problems that don't affect women, like prostate cancer. To improve men's health, it's important to raise awareness about preventive screenings and regular health care for men of all ages.
1. Parkinson's disease: Men are 1.5 times more likely to develop Parkinson's disease than women.
X-linked recessive diseases most often occur in males. Males have only one X chromosome. A single recessive gene on that X chromosome will cause the disease. The Y chromosome is the other half of the XY gene pair in the male.
The standard explanation has been that fathers pass on more genetic mutations, because their sperm-producing cells divide throughout their lifetimes--as many as 400 times in a 30-year-old man. This provides many more chances for mistakes, as the DNA copies itself, than in egg cells, which only divide about 24 times.
That said, men have larger hearts and blood vessels than women do, and cholesterol tends to accumulate and form plaques in the major arteries. In women, cholesterol buildup is often found in smaller blood vessels.
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in both men and women.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men in the United States, killing 384,886 men in 2021—that's about 1 in every 4 male deaths.
RPI Deficiency
This is considered to be the rarest disease in the world. Ribose-5-Phosphate Isomerase (RPI), is a crucial enzyme in a metabolic process in the human body. This condition can cause muscle stiffness, seizures, and reduction of white matter in the brain.
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During their 40s and 50s, men's bodies produce testosterone at declining rates. They begin to lose muscle mass and become more prone to weight gain. Their risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes increases.
Diabetes, especially type 2, is more common in males rather than females. However, females often have more serious complications and a greater risk of death. Glucose is usually metabolised and regulated at low levels in the blood through the function of a pancreatic hormone called insulin.
Men age 45 and older and women age 55 and older are more likely to have a heart attack than are younger men and women. Tobacco use. This includes smoking and long-term exposure to secondhand smoke.
Most common causes of death
While heart disease may be the most common reason for death in all males taken together, accidents occupy the top spot for those under 45 years of age. In males between the ages of 45 and 85, it is cancer. Once men reach 85 years old, heart disease is the most common cause of death.
All men inherit a Y chromosome from their father, which means all traits that are only found on the Y chromosome come from dad, not mom. The Supporting Evidence: Y-linked traits follow a clear paternal lineage.
Trisomy X, also called triple X syndrome or 47,XXX, is characterized by the presence of an additional X chromosome in each of a female's cells. Although females with this condition may be taller than average, this chromosomal change typically causes no unusual physical features.
cancer. dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. advanced lung, heart, kidney and liver disease. stroke and other neurological diseases, including motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis.
Klinefelter syndrome only affects males. It happens because of a difference deep inside the body's cells, in microscopic strings of DNA (what make up genes) called chromosomes. Chromosomes are tiny, but they play a huge role in who we are — including deciding our gender, how we look, and how we grow.
Fragile X syndrome is a genetic condition that causes a range of developmental problems including learning disabilities and cognitive impairment. Usually, males are more severely affected by this disorder than females.
Klinefelter syndrome is a fairly common genetic condition found in males only. Many boys with Klinefelter syndrome — also known as XXY syndrome — have no signs or symptoms, and some don't even know they have it until later in life.