Men
Examples of sex-related illnesses in male humans:
- Prostate cancer and other diseases of the male reproductive system occur only in men.
- Diseases of X-linked recessive inheritance, such as colour blindness, occur more frequently in men.
- Abdominal aortic aneurysms are six times more common in men, and thus some countries have introduce screening for males at risk of suffering the condition.
- Autism is approximately 4 times more prevalent in males than females.
- Psychologists are more likely to diagnose men than women with antisocial personality disorder and substance-abuse disorders.
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Famous quotes containing the word men:
“O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They’d be inexpensive, too.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)