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Public release date: 18 February 2010
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Men's leading causes of death
Regarding
life expectancy in men, we should know that men in United States
live more than five years less than women. By consequence, the female
population as a whole is older than the male population.
For more than the top leading causes of death, men have higher death rates.
Because women outlive men, health statistics usually use data which have
been age-adjusted to account for this difference when comparing females and
males. All comparisons here are based on age-adjusted death rates.
1. Heart disease
One and one-half times more men than woman die from heart disease. Under age
65, three times more men than women die from heart attacks.
2. Cancer
One and one-half times more men than woman die from cancer. Probability of
developing cancer is higher in men and they don't survive as long once
they've been diagnosed. The leading cause of cancer death for males is
lung cancer. It kills two and one-half times more men than woman. The second
leading cause of cancer death is
prostate cancer, while melanoma, the cancer with the greatest increase
in incidence since 1973, kills nearly twice as many men as woman.
3. Accidents
Men are one and one-half times more likely than women to die from accidental
deaths. Accidents are the number one cause of death for males aged 1 to 44
years. Two and one-half times more men as women die in motor-vehicle
accidents, the leading cause of accidental death. Five times more males die
by drowning.
4. Flu and pneumonia
Over one and one-half as many men as women die from flu and pneumonia.
5. Suicide
Rates of suicide are four times higher for men than women. For most age
groups suicide rates are unchanged since 1946, but for those male population
aged 15 to 24 years the rate has increased 250% and 6 out of 7 people are
male. Suicide rates for those population aged 75 and older are 9 to 12 times
higher for men than women.
6. Diabetes
Nearly one and one-half times more men than women die from diabetes.
7. Homicide
Men are victims in 4 out of 5 homicides. For African American men, who are
victims 7 times more often than European American men, homicide is the
fourth leading cause of death, and the number one killer for those ages 15
to 24.
8. Cirrosis
Very close related to unhealthy lifestyle, statistics reveal that two and
one-half times more men than women die from chronic liver disease and
cirrhosis.
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