Men's Health Facts
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death among men in the United
States. Every 29 seconds, someone in this country will experience a
coronary event; about every minute someone will die from one.
- An estimated 180,410 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed
in 2000.
- At least an estimated 2.5 million men, or one third of all men with
the disease, don't know that they have diabetes.
- Typically, the life expectancy of women has been higher than men-by
about 7 years. This year, for the first time in several years, the gap
is closing to 6 years.
- Nearly 830,000 men (ages 25-64) died from heart disease in 1997.
- An estimated 31,900 men will die from prostate cancer in 2000, it
is the second leading cause of cancer death in men.
- Men represent 84 % of all AIDS cases in the United States.
- American men, 45-64 years old, suffer from an estimated 218,000 heart
attacks a year. Women in the same age group suffer 74,000 heart attacks
annually.
- Twenty-five percent of men will die within one year of having a heart
attack.
- In 2000, the estimated bulk of government funding for breast cancer
research will be approximately $501 million. Funding for prostate cancer
will be $260 million.
*from the National Men's Health Foundation
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