Four out of five homicide victims are men. At least 80 percent of suicides are men. Nine out of ten HIV related deaths are men. Women see a doctor about four times more than men. They go to the hospital more often and take more prescription medicine.
Women have more auto immune disease, strokes and clinical depression .
Blacks and Hispanics get twice as much tuberculosis as whites. Hispanics get diabetes twice as often as whites. The Agriculture Department said Women generally eat healthier diets than men and senior citizens and vegetarians generally eat the healthiest diets of all. Whites had a score of 64.78, compared to 59.66 for Blacks, But the difference between Hispanics, 64.04, and non-Hispanics, 64.11, was only slight. Individuals with advanced education scored 66.67, compared to 62.97 for high school graduates and 62.57 for those who did not finish high school.