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Men's
Health Fact Sheet
- Leading Cause of Death (overall): Heart
Disease (2000) *
- Leading Cause of Death (25-44 Year
Olds): Accidents (unintentional injuries) (2000) *
- Number of Deaths From Prostate Cancer:
31,729 (1999) *
- Number of Annual Office Visits to Physicians
(all ages): 14.9 million (2000) *
- Number of Annual Hospital Outpatient
Department Visits: 33.7 million (2000) *
- Number of Annual Emergency Department
Visits: 50.9 million (2000) *
- Number of Hospital Discharges (Inpatients):
12.5 million (2000) *
- Number of Surgical Procedures Performed
Annually: 15.7 million (2000) *
Males are at higher risk from most causes
of injury and are disproportionately represented in the
deaths that may result. Between the ages of 15 and 19 years,
males are about 2.5 times more likely to die of any unintentional
injury, five times more likely to die of homicide or suicide,
and 10.6 times more likely to die from drowning. (Source:
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
Prostate Cancer makes up 37% of all cancer
cases yet receives only 5% of research funding. (Source
NPCC)
American men die 5.7 years sooner than
women (average life expectancy of 73.8 years vs. 79.5 years).
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Men have a higher age-adjusted death rate
for every one of the top 10 leading causes of death. *
Males under 65 years of age are more likely
to have no health insurance, compared to females: 18.5%
vs. 16.2% in 1997. *
23.2% of males have no usual source of
health care, compared to 11.9% of females. *
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
At least an estimated 2.5 million men,
or one third of all men with the disease, don't know that
they have diabetes
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
* (Source: Center For Disease Control CDC
/ All figures are for U.S.)
* (Source: DHHS National Center for Health
Statistics)
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