Which diseases are more severe for women and which ones for men? Have you ever asked this question? Of course, a woman cannot have prostatitis, and a man cannot have inflammation of the appendages.. But most diseases still do not differ by gender.. Scientists say that some ailments can be called female, and some - male... Sex differences in the frequency and " For example, there is an opinion among the people that men go to doctors less often and prefer to get sick at home.. But at the same time, they complain about their well-being much more often and more persistently than women.. Women, in turn, suffer less from pain and therefore more easily tolerate any ailments..

However, this is all just speculation with no scientific basis.. Evidence in this area is limited so far to the fact that women, on average, live longer than men..

Why? Because they smoke and drink less, lead a more active lifestyle and visit doctors more often. In addition, it is believed that female hormones protect the fairer sex from heart disease until menopause..

Hormones play an important role However, a recent study by Finnish scientists showed that women's health is by no means as good as it seems.. In the course of their work, doctors have studied how men and women are affected by the same disease - rheumatoid arthritis - and found that women suffer from it much more. At the same stage of the disease in women, the symptoms are much stronger, causing more pain and discomfort..

“And I think hormones play a role here, too,” Professor Alan Silman, director of the Arthritis Research Organization, told The Guardian.. According to him, the female hormone estrogen significantly increases joint inflammation, which leads to pain and swelling..

The difference in the male and female physique also affects, the doctor believes..

Secrets of male chickenpox Another disease, the severity of which depends on the gender of the carrier, is chickenpox, familiar to many since childhood.. As you know, the older a person is, the more severely he suffers this infection - among adults, mortality from chickenpox is several times higher than among children.. Recently it was found that the intensity of symptoms depends on gender: according to data published in the British Medical Journal, men die from chickenpox 2 times more often than women..

Why the statistics are exactly like this, doctors do not yet know - they only make assumptions. For example, virologist Nigel Higson says that chickenpox causes symptoms in men that women simply cannot have..

- Chickenpox, for example, causes orchitis in men - swelling of the testicles. Subsequently, the patient may experience fertility problems for the rest of his life, says Higson.. Based on this, the doctor concluded that chickenpox can cause other symptoms that are characteristic only of the male sex..

And asthma is more dangerous for women But asthma, on the contrary, is more dangerous for women. The spread in statistics is about the same: the number of women dying from this disease is 2 times more than the number of men. Women are also much more likely to be hospitalized specifically for asthma..

And again, hormones are to blame, doctors say. Before reaching puberty, boys are more susceptible to asthma than girls, but after - when the hormonal background is rebuilt in a new way - it is the fairer sex that become the most likely victims of the disease..

“There is evidence that estrogen and progesterone affect the sensitivity of the airways, increase it,” explains Dr. Elaine Vickers, an asthma research specialist.. But testosterone, according to Vickers, has the opposite effect..

But the most interesting of recent studies has shown that women are actually more sensitive to pain than men - contrary to popular belief.. The explanation lies again somewhere in the field of hormones.. When we are in pain, our body produces its own opioids, endorphins and enkephalins, natural painkillers.. And estrogen seems to interfere with this process.. There is another, psychological explanation: men, according to scientists, perceive pain not as a threat, but as an inconvenience, and therefore suffer less..

After such an explanation, women will probably have a reasonable question: how then do the representatives of the weaker sex cope with pain during childbirth? Courageously, doctors answer. And they add: here psychology plays the opposite role. Every inner woman is ready to accept the inevitability and expectation of labor pains, which helps to cope with them..

Alexander Orlov.

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