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Percentage of Adults with Selected Respiratory Diseases by Sex

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mixin

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The figure above shows the percentage of adults with selected respiratory diseases, by sex, derived from the 2007 National Health Interview Survey.

Among U.S. adults in 2007, larger percentages of women than men had current asthma (9.0% versus 5.4%), hay fever (8.4% versus 6.5%), sinusitis (13.8% versus 9.0%), or chronic bronchitis (4.2% versus 2.4%).

However, a greater percentage of men than women had emphysema (1.9% versus 1.4%).

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5832a5.htm?s_cid=mm5832a5_x
 
Re: Percentage of Adults with Selected Respiratory Diseases by Sex

is it from the hormones ?

For flu or colds I would assume it's because of
increased contact to children, but for
those it seems to be balanced almost 50%
 
Re: Percentage of Adults with Selected Respiratory Diseases by Sex

That's a good question about the hormones; that might explain it better than anything else. Maybe as long as hormones fluxuate normally, there's no problem; but when they really get out of whack, then that leaves them less resistant to disease?

I read about the problems anabolic steriods cause with women's hormones and how that may impact their immune systems. There are many women who suffer from hormone imbalance occurring naturally.:
Women’s immune systems are also at risk when hormone levels are constantly fluctuating as they are when on AAS (Sutton, n.d.). When immune systems are low, it is very easy to become infected with infectious diseases. A study was conducted and it was reported that the use of anabolic steroids might inhibit the immunomodulatory and antiviral activities of androgens in the body, or they may cause the prevention of antibodies when an individual is sick (Sutton).
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Additionally:
More specifically Clark et al (2006) estimated that 0.5 to 0.8 million teenagers are AAS abusers and teenage girls represented the fastest growing group of AAS abusers.
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http://thesportdigest.com/article/p...formance-effects-anabolic-androgenic-steriods
 
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