Women are two times more likely than men to contract a sexually transmitted disease and ten times more likely to contract HIV during unprotected sex with an infected partner. Women smokers are 20 percent to 70 percent more likely to develop lung cancer than male smokers.
Women are more likely than men to have a second heart attack within a year of the first one.
After consuming the same amount of alcohol, women have higher blood alcohol content than men. Its mission is to increase research in women's health, recruit women for clinical trials, and better understand gender-based health differences. The gender-based health differences cited in the study are nothing new. Studies continue to reinforce some basic health differences between men and women. However, the group believes women have been under-represented in many scientific studies to date, and the group's sole mission is to improve the health of women through research.