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It is a fact that men take care of their car more than of their health. That’s why men die earlier than women: their lifespan is 7 years lower than that of the females. In fact about 70 % of men aged 30-50 are overweight and 40 % are stressed. These are the 8 factors threatening men’s life:

• Prostate cancer. It is not linked to diseases, lifestyles, or alimentation, but to age and heredity. 80 % of the eighty-year-old men have prostate cancer, even if they die of other condition.
• Lung cancer. It is boosted by smoking, like other respiratory conditions, but it also can be hereditary or determined by the contact with toxic compounds at work. Combined with alcohol, smoking induces larynx cancer. In one year after quitting smoking, the risk of cancer decreases significantly.
• Sleep apnea. The high incidence of sleep apnea amongst men is due to the fat accumulation around their necks when they increase weight. As muscular tone decreases while sleeping, the respiratory ways get narrower due to the fat pressure and cannot let the air pass. There are also hormonal factors. Sleep apnea affects the quality of the sleep, turning the person sleepy and irritable during the day, with high risk for traffic accidents.
• Heart. Men are more predisposed to heart failure than women due to the testosterone. Hearth health is affected by high cholesterol, smoking, alcohol, overweight, hypertension, diabetes but also heredity.
• Liver cancer. 90 % of the cases are due to drinking and infection with hepatitis virus C. 10 % is determined by infection with hepatitis virus B or hereditary metabolic conditions. Also high pills intake, risky sexual behavior and hereditary factors count.
• Depression. Besides medical and social causes the highest factor that leads to suicide in men is linked to how men experience personal difficulties. More rigid, inflexible, introverted and impulsive than a woman, when a man faces a severe difficulty, he can choose the evasive way of acting and commit suicide. Man does not stand loneliness or matrimonial separation the way a woman does and usually he does not speak about his problems, so he does not free himself from his sufferance.
• Obesity. Women usually accumulate fat on the hips, while men in the abdomen, which is more dangerous, as this is associated with metabolic and respiratory complications: diabetes, apnea, hypertension, vascular conditions and others.
• Stroke. It is linked to heredity, hypertension, diabetes, fat metabolism diseases and chronic headaches.