Women live longer than men but in poorer health – Why?

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In this episode:

  • Ageing is different in men and women because they have different organs in addition to different hormones that affect brain function, bones and organs in unique ways
  • Women are entirely immunologically different – a lot of women’s chronic diseases of ageing have an inflammatory component
  • By the age of 65, a woman is four times as likely as a man to develop chronic disease significant enough to be impacting on their ability to perform day to day activities 

 

Expert: Prof Cassandra Szoeke, Specialist Physician & Neurologist

Host: Dr Marita Long, GP and Medical Educator

Total time: 33 mins

 

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Last Updated: 29 Aug, 2024

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Specialist Physician and Neurologist, Director, Healthy Ageing Program, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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