10 Conditions That Affect Men and Women Differently

We often believe our health problems, like heart issues, how we react to getting sick, and even simple health dangers, are the same for everyone, but this is not always true.

1. Heart Attack

The well-known sign of a heart attack, feeling like an elephant is on your chest, is not as common in women as in men.

Many women feel pressure in their upper back, pain in their jaw, and have trouble breathing. Or they might feel sick to their stomach and dizzy instead.

Even though heart disease causes the most deaths for both men and women, women are more likely to die after a heart attack

This is because it might not be noticed or treated soon enough if warning signs are missed.

2. Multiple Sclerosis

Sickness that impacts the body’s defence system are often worse in men. For instance, MS affects many more women than men overall, but for the type that gets worse over time (PPMS), men get it as often as women.

PPMS is usually harder to find and treat than the type of MS that comes and goes.

3. Stroke

Many more women than men have strokes every year. Usual signs include sudden weakness on one side, trouble speaking and keeping balance, and feeling mixed up.

But women often have other or different signs: passing out, being restless, seeing things that aren’t there, throwing up, pain, hiccups, and fits.

Women usually have a harder time getting better after a stroke, too.

4. STDs

Women are less likely to show signs of diseases passed through sex (STDs) like chlamydia and gonorrhea. STDs can also cause long-term pain in a woman’s lower belly that can lead to problems having children.

Men rarely have such problems. The virus that causes warts (HPV) is also the main reason for cervical cancer in women, but it does not bring the same danger for men.

5. Hair Loss

Men are much more likely to lose hair as they get older than women. About 40% of women will have thinner hair or lose hair, but 85% of men will have thinner hair by age 50.

Men tend to lose hair in the same way — their front hair line moves further and further back. They may also get a bare spot on the top of their head.

Women have either thinner hair all over or bald spots in different places.

6. Acne

Hormones are often the reason for acne. Because women’s hormones change during monthly periods, when pregnant, and through menopause, they are more likely to get acne as adults than men.

How it is treated can also differ based on your sex. Doctors usually give medicine that controls hormones, like birth control, to women.

Lotions you put on your skin are more common for men.

7. Stress

Women are more likely to say they feel stressed than men.

Both men and women feel anger, changes in mood, and tight muscles from stress at about the same rates, but women more often say it causes a head pain, an upset stomach, or makes them want to cry.

Men are less likely to have body symptoms during stressful times than women.

8. UTIs

Even though women tend to get infections in their urinary tract (UTIs) more often, men’s UTIs are more difficult. They also have different reasons for happening.

Women most often get them because of germs from sex or faeces (their tube for urine is shorter and closer to that area of the bottom).

Men’s UTIs are more likely to happen because of something that stops their urine from flowing, like a larger prostate gland or stones in their kidneys.

9. Pain

More women suffer from chronic pain (pain that lasts longer than 6 months and does not improve with treatment) than men.

Their pain often lasts longer and is more severe. Doctors are still investigating why this happens, but they think it may be related to hormonal differences between men and women.

10. Osteoporosis

Women are more likely to develop osteoporosis, but this condition is not recognised or diagnosed as often in men.

However, men with this bone condition who break a hip are twice as likely to die compared to women with osteoporosis who break a hip.

Helpful information

To stay healthy and lower the risk of heart disease, strokes, hormone-related cancers, and osteoporosis, it is important to maintain a good hormone balance throughout life.

Women need to have both oestrogen and progesterone in balance throughout their lives.

Men can also have too much oestrogen, and this article will explain more about it.

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