Sex Differences in Mortality Rate

Science, 2002

182 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/67953a775ba24462a76a709bf56beea9da0cfcbd

Citations in the corpus

• Costs and benefits of fat-free muscle mass in men: relationship to mating success, dietary requirements, and native immunity (2009, unknown): “In support of the idea that testosterone has an adverse effect on immunity, mortality from infectious disease is substantially higher in males than in females (Owens, 2002).”
• The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981–2002 (2007, unknown): “With the possible exception of measles, for which some evidence suggests that women might be more susceptible to death (Garenne 1995), in general men are more prone to acquire and die from parasitic and infectious diseases (Owens 2002).”