[Osage Orange]

Many more Chinese men died than women.

Likely older.....and maybe/likely smokers...

Risk factors go up...for those two things...

People that get bad pulmonary DZ...can be genetically likely to have bad lungs...and can't fight off PNA, ARDS, etc..etc...

I've seen COPD'ers in their 50's that are actually pulmonary cripples...Didn't have that many "pack years"...but their lungs were shot. That's bad genetics.

I've seen 80 yr old folks that smoked for 60 years...and yea they ain't in great shape...but they are still living.

It's a combo deal...and many factors involved.

[lepton]

Many more Chinese men died than women.
Likely older.....and maybe/likely smokers...

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Perhaps I should have clipped more from the comment I was responding to.

Yes, smoking was the exact risk factor I in the post I was responding to. I was just adding the particular M:F mortality ratios merely alluded to in the previous post.