Written by Anuradha Varanasi | Updated : January 18, 2017 11:14 AM IST
It’s a known fact that women are more prone to certain diseases like depression, autoimmune and cardiovascular diseases, among others. However, researchers have found that men are genetically more prone to other diseases as compared to women. These are the 7 diseases that afflicts men far more commonly.
Common flu: Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that estrogen, the female hormone, reduces the replication of the influenza A virus. Even though men also produce estrogen up to a certain extent, it doesn’t have the same protective effects against reducing influenza A virus replication [1]. This means men in general are more likely to suffer from the flu as compared to women.
Cancer: Studies have repeatedly found that men are far more susceptible to cancer as compared to women, although some types of cancer are more common in women [2]. This includes prostate cancer, liver cancer and esophageal cancer. Researchers say men are two to four times more likely to suffer from these cancers as compared to women.
Autism spectrum disorders: Male children are far more prone to autism than female kids mainly because female infants tend to have more grey matter in the brain as compared to boys at the time of birth [3].
Diabetes: Men are far more likely to develop type 2 diabetes as compared to women [4]. A study published in the journal Diabetologia revealed that biologically, men are far more susceptible to develop diabetes after studying a little more than 95,000 men and women living with this lifestyle disease.
Kidney diseases: Take care of your kidneys because researchers have repeatedly found that men are far more prone to end stage renal or kidney disease (ESRD)[5]. ESRD takes place when the kidneys aren’t able to function any longer and it is also known as the last stage of chronic kidney disease.
Alcoholism: This should come as no surprise, but men tend to drink a lot more heavily and there are a lot more male alcoholics as compared to female ones [6]. Alcohol addiction is no longer treated as a bad habit but like a chronic disease.
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD): The lifetime prevalence for ASPD is reported to range from 2% to 4% in men and only 0.5% to 1% in women [7]. This personality disorder is associated with a pattern of socially irresponsible and guiltless behaviour. People with ASPD tend to break the law more often.
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