Contents:
- Medical Video: How I cured myself of chronic illness and reversed ageing | Darryl D'Souza | TEDxPanaji
- Various chronic diseases
- 1. Stroke
- 2. Heart disease
- 3. Osteoporosis
- 4. Diabetes
- 5. Skin cancer
Medical Video: How I cured myself of chronic illness and reversed ageing | Darryl D'Souza | TEDxPanaji
Not only in physical terms, in fact some diseases that attack men and women also cause different effects. Yes, the effects of chronic diseases that occur in men and can be very different. This can also affect the severity of chronic illnesses suffered. So, what types of diseases have different ways of working and influencing women and men?
Various chronic diseases
1. Stroke
Data from the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia shows that around 8 of the 1,000 Indonesian people have suffered strokes. In fact, every seven people who die, one of them is caused by this chronic disease. Generally, stroke risk factors do not differ between women and men.
It's just that, there are a handful of factors that occur in women, but not experienced by men. For example, such as the consumption of birth control pills, pregnancy, the use of hormone replacement therapy, to the accumulation of fat in the waist. These reasons reinforce why most cases of stroke affect women compared to men.
2. Heart disease
According to the sample registration system (SIRS) survey data, heart disease was ranked as the highest cause of death in Indonesia after a stroke. However, men have a higher risk of developing heart disease at a younger age than women.
Heart disease in women usually appears slower because of the protective effects of the hormone estrogen. This hormone can maintain a woman's cholesterol level, thereby reducing the main risk factors for heart disease. Differences in body shape are also the next determining factor.
Women generally have a pear-shaped body, with a buildup of fat that mostly occurs in the hip and thigh area. While men often have a body shape like an apple, so much fat accumulates in the middle of the body. This is why the risk of heart disease in men is greater.
Mehran Movassaghi MD, a urologist and male health specialist at Providence Saint John 's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, also added this. According to him, postmenopausal women usually experience abnormal changes in the shape of the heart muscle, known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy. This condition is certainly less likely to be experienced by men because they do not get menopause.
3. Osteoporosis
As you probably already know, osteoporosis is a chronic disease affecting men and women in the elderly. However, did you know that women have a greater risk than men? This is because the hormone estrogen which is in charge of providing a protective effect on bone density, will gradually decrease as you enter menopause.
As a result, the bone loses density which makes it easily fragile, said Michael Guma, DO, as a rheumatologist in North Arlington, New Jersey. In addition, the bone structure of women who are smaller than men is also a factor in other osteoporosis.
4. Diabetes
Chronic diseases that have different effects on men and women are diabetes. Quoting from the News One page, the results of basic health research (Riskesdas) in 2013 showed that the risk of obesity is more common in women than men.
Indirectly, an increase in the incidence of obesity in women contributes to the increased risk of women experiencing diabetes mellitus.
5. Skin cancer
Skin cancer can actually be experienced by all age groups and genders. Even so, men are two times more likely to experience this chronic disease than women.
According to Jerome Garden, M.D., as director of the Physicians Laser and Dermatology Institute in Chicago, United States, men are more often in the sun for a long time. Whether to work or do other activities.
Moreover, men tend to be indifferent to the use of sunscreens or other skin protective equipment. In contrast to women who are more active in doing this treatment in order to get dream skin. The location of skin cancer attacks in men and women is also different. The head and ears are some of the targets of skin cancer experienced by men, while women experience it more often on the feet.
