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Fire-Dragon-DoLtoday at 3:12 AM5 repliesview on HN

That 5 years difference between men and women keeps being biologically weird


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brandonbtoday at 3:20 AM

Part of the gap is that men develop heart disease 7 years earlier: https://www.empirical.health/blog/men-vs-women-heart-disease...

skybriantoday at 3:33 AM

Yeah, that seems curious. But nowadays, you can just ask. So I asked ChatGPT and it listed a wide variety of factors.

> Researchers generally group explanations into (1) cause-of-death differences, (2) exposure/behavior differences, (3) healthcare-use differences, and (4) biological differences.

https://chatgpt.com/share/697ec925-3ab0-8000-9a09-d47d2fb33d...

dietr1chtoday at 3:27 AM

We are different, you might want to check how hearing decline is also dramatically different

lotsofpulptoday at 3:19 AM

Why? They have vastly different biologies.

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vharucktoday at 3:33 AM

Men do riskier shit when young. They are also less likely to have a primary care physician.