Nearly 95,000 men ages 25 to 64 died from heart disease or stroke in 1994. The death rate of men from prostate cancer has increased by 25 percent since 1971. Men represent 85 percent of all AIDS cases in the United States. 27 percent of men will die within one year after having a heart attack. The five-year survival rate for men with testicular cancer is 95 percent.
Women visit doctors almost four times as often as men.
Over three-fourths of heart transplant patients in the United States are men. Nearly 90 percent of all driving under the influence charges filed in 1994 were against men. Over 30 percent of men in the United States are overweight. 73 percent of the coronary artery bypasses performed in 1994 were on men. As many as 50 percent of all men between the ages of 40 and 70 experience problems maintaining their erections.