it was Assumed that men die earlier because of Smoking, alcohol consumption and propensity to take risks, according to a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. However, American scientists have tracked the statistics on mortality in 13 countries for over two centuries and came to the conclusion that the impact of addictions on the difference in life expectancy of women and men greatly exaggerated.

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it was Assumed that men die earlier because of Smoking, alcohol consumption and propensity to take risks, according to a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. However, American scientists have tracked the statistics on mortality in 13 countries for over two centuries and came to the conclusion that the impact of addictions on the difference in life expectancy of women and men greatly exaggerated.

Much more men die at the age of 50-70 years from predisposition to diseases of the cardiovascular system. You can not say about women, rarely suffering from these ailments in old age. The statistical gap in the 1920s was 1.5 times, and today it has increased to 3.5 times. Prior to the beginning of the 20th century this gap had never existed, and he began to emerge with the development of medicine, when women's death rate has fallen sharply, and the men fell noticeably slower.

While scientists don't understand why more men die of cardiovascular system, but believed that it is possible to find the genetic underpinnings. Research is continuing.