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It does not contradict my statement. If they are less likely to seek medical treatment, they receive worse medical treatment (or no treatment at all).
Worse and less are two different things. One is a judgement of quality, the other a judgement of quantity.
Hypothesis: it's socially more acceptable for men to not care for their body as much as women do, eat worse, drink more soda and beer, etc. leading overall to more sugar(y) foods and more inflammation?
So is the second X chromosome in women supposed to be an exact copy of the first or do they differ? That's fascinating to me all by itself, and more so that some genes in the dupe can reinforce the first even though the rest of the chromosome is suppressed. EDIT: Ah, wikipedia explains that the two X chromosomes in a standard-issue woman come from the mother and paternal grandmother, and then ... "Early in embryonic…
> Being a male, I'm troubled by the fitness of the Y-chromosome over the generations. It seems to me that it can only accumulate errors and mutations. In fact, the Y-chromosome has completely disappeared in some species [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_chromosome#Future_evolution
More money is spent on preventing cancer in women in treatment, research, and preventive medicine. Google the history of the brca gene, research and tests around it. Its quite amazing.I hope all cancer research gets the pipeline it got.
If this is talking about a prostate vs breath cancer dichotomy. The reason is prostate cancer kills much older men than breast cancer kills women. Women in their 40s routinely die of breast cancer but that's pretty rare for a man in his 40s to die of prostate cancer. So saving a man's live fron prostate cancer means he dies at 75 instead of 70 and but saving a women's from breast cancer means she dies at 65 instead o…
So is the second X chromosome in women supposed to be an exact copy of the first or do they differ? That's fascinating to me all by itself, and more so that some genes in the dupe can reinforce the first even though the rest of the chromosome is suppressed. EDIT: Ah, wikipedia explains that the two X chromosomes in a standard-issue woman come from the mother and paternal grandmother, and then ... "Early in embryonic…
There's no need to worry about the Y chromosome disappearing because it's remarkably stable. This makes sense -- males with Y mutations die out and men are extremely good at producing offspring. This only good Y chromosomes are passed on.
Nevertheless, the genes on the Y chromosome are like any other and if the Y chromosome were to disappear, natural selection would still push for a 50/50 sex ratio. The Y chromosome itself isn't necessary to make a male -- its genes can be spliced onto the X chromosome and function properly. Thus, if we saw loss of Y, we would likely see a 50/50 gender split but now based on presence of the SRY gene.
More money is spent on preventing cancer in women in treatment, research, and preventive medicine. Google the history of the brca gene, research and tests around it. Its quite amazing.I hope all cancer research gets the pipeline it got.
The breast cancer movement was started because at the time, male-only cancers (such as prostate and testicular cancers) were getting far more funding and research, while breast cancer was essentially being ignored despite being at least an order of magnitude more common. That it's more common has probably made it easier to do research on once it gained sufficient visibility and funding.
Hypothesis: it's socially more acceptable for men to not care for their body as much as women do, eat worse, drink more soda and beer, etc. leading overall to more sugar(y) foods and more inflammation?
I ended up demanding that I too get tested for some of these things, and the doctors caught that I also had an asymptomstic but more serious autoimmune thyroid disease. Had I been a woman, I would have caught this during pregnancy check ups, and been treated. Instead I had to demand it.
Now of course I think it's fine for pregnant women to be given priority but we need to realize that men don't get the equivalent treatment and thus encourage programs to get men in to the doctors, thoroughly tested, and treated. Make it part of a pre-birth check up for fathers. After all, once the baby is born, it would be nice if they had a father.
Because men receive worse medical treatment. Just compare how prostate and breast cancer are promoted. It also corresponds with other statistics like life expectancy, medical expenses, disposable income...
On the flip side, studies have shown that women are less likely to be taken seriously when bringing a medical concern or complaint to a doctor. Which might suggest that women are under-diagnosed compared to men.
Men were significant less likely to be taken serious and admitted. However those few who are admitted are then taken more serious, and get more direct treatment than women. From a cultural perspective, men are viewed as always healthy, and in the exceptional case where its proven false then they are expected to be restored back to the norm. Women get the opposite cultural treatment, where they are easy accepted as sick but then the health system gives up and don't expect them to be able to be restored back.
Hypothesis: it's socially more acceptable for men to not care for their body as much as women do, eat worse, drink more soda and beer, etc. leading overall to more sugar(y) foods and more inflammation?
Genetic differences between males and females may account for some of the imbalance in how often people get sick, but incentives may also account for some. The article don't really explore that.
So is the second X chromosome in women supposed to be an exact copy of the first or do they differ? That's fascinating to me all by itself, and more so that some genes in the dupe can reinforce the first even though the rest of the chromosome is suppressed. EDIT: Ah, wikipedia explains that the two X chromosomes in a standard-issue woman come from the mother and paternal grandmother, and then ... "Early in embryonic…
It's worth pointing out that since Barr body deactivation occurs later in development, some female cells have one of the X chromosomes active, while other cells have the other one active.