{"id":3472,"date":"2025-02-25T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:00:26","slug":"why-do-women-live-longer-than-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=3472","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Women outlive men, by something of a long shot: In the United States, women have a life expectancy<\/a> of about 80, compared to around 75 for men.<\/p>\n

This holds true regardless of where women live, how much money they make and many other factors. It\u2019s even true for most other mammals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very robust phenomenon all over the world, totally conserved in sickness, during famines, during epidemics, even during times of starvation,\u201d said Dr. Dena Dubal, a professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

But the reasons women live longer are complicated and less established \u2014 and the fact that they are outliving men doesn\u2019t necessarily mean they are living better. Women tend to have shorter<\/a> health spans<\/a> (the number of healthy years a person lives) than men, said B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Benayoun, an associate professor at the U.S.C. Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Women are generally more physically frail than men<\/a> in old age; they\u2019re also more vulnerable, particularly after menopause, to developing cardiovascular issues and Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>, in part because age itself is a risk factor for those conditions, Dr. Benayoun said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n