The Top 5 Killers of Men

health.yahoo.net ^ | 06/16/2011 | Bill Phillips

[ThinkingBuddha]

Heart disease is the number one killer of men, claiming the lives of nearly 400,000 fathers, friends, brothers, and sons every year. Often, the difference between life and death is razor thin—remembering to pop an aspirin, not delaying your trip to the E.R.

This week is National Men's Health Week, which was created by Congress in 1994 to raise the awareness of the health threats uniquely facing men. To commemorate, we’ve put together a list of the most popular ways to die as a man in America. Collectively, these diseases kill nearly one million of us annually. And, chances are, your lifestyle or genetic profile puts you at risk for at least one of them.

[ThinkingBuddha]

This is good reading...it might save your life.

[jeffc]

Yeah, and you still won’t see any “(fill-in-the-blank) Awareness” campaign for any male disease.

[eastforker]

And the number one cause is...................Living!

[ClearCase_guy]

I know I'm being too prickly about this, but I see lots of articles (like this one) which approach Heart Disease this way:

"But you’re a fit, healthy guy, right? Why would you die of heart disease? Believe it or not, not every victim of the disease is overweight or inactive.”

And what is their recommendation? Well, you should lose weight and begin an exercise program!

[ThinkingBuddha]

I know I'm being too prickly about this, but I see lots of articles (like this one) which approach Heart Disease this way: "But you’re a fit, healthy guy, right? Why would you die of heart disease? Believe it or not, not every victim of the disease is overweight or inactive.” And what is their recommendation? Well, you should lose weight and begin an exercise program!

According to my primary care doctor, there is a genetic component too, but an significant portion of cardiac failure is due to unhealthy lifestyle choice.

[Logic n' Reason]

Horse patooooty!

The number one killer of men is women!

Always has been .... always will be.

All the rest of the diseases and problems are symptoms...the disease is women.

Period.

[outofsalt]

Women!
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease which is 100% fatal.”

[fredhead]

The only thing you die of is being born. Sure as you're born, you're gonna die. In the past, with two exceptions, everyone who was born eventually died. You'll find the two exceptions in the Bible, Enoch (father of Methuselah) “walked with God and was no more” and Elijah was carried to heaven in a chariot of fire.

Even the Son of God died.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Testosterone poisoning, actually. Kills gays, straights, bi- and transgendered men equally.

[floozy22]

The Top 5 6 Killers of Men

They forgot one

[norwaypinesavage]

They completely missed NUMBER 3: Medical Mistakes.

[Moonman62]

The number one killer of men is women! Always has been .... always will be.

You beat me to it. There's a reason women live longer.

[tflabo]

He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan

[tflabo]

The pace of this perverted, corrupted world sliding ever downwards then checking out a bit earlier might have some upsides.

[crazydad]

Marriage!!!!!!!!!!!! And teenage daughters.

[Tanniker Smith]

1 in 500 people in the United States has hypertrophic cardiomypathy and may not even know it. Of those, many are at risk for sudden death even without symptoms.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Be wary of the advice of “life or death” doctors, because being surrounded by people who all have the same potentially lethal condition can psychologically affect their doctor as well.

For example, if you look at a group of heart surgeons, often the first thing that pops into mind is, “These guys don’t look very healthy!”

This is because they have strongly altered their behavior to become more “heart healthy”, to the detriment of everything else. Often they tend to exercise too much, eat lots of weird and non-nutritious food while shunning healthy protein and fat, and do other things that while good for their *patients* is not so good for a healthy person.

[Pharmboy]

Reminded me of what a depressed character said in a Woody Allen film: “I have so many problems even suicide wouldn’t solve them all.”

[Slings and Arrows]

What are the other four?

[Pharmboy]

23andme just lowered their fee to 99 bucks. You get an awful lot for that money, including multiple genomic disease risks, drug/genomic data and ancestry. Disclaimer: I have NO financial interest (or any other link) with this company.

The info could be helpful to you in a number of ways (e.g., where to put your preventive efforts and disease-screening attention).