Women tend to live longer than men. But it wasn't always that way, a new study from the University of Wisconsin in Madison says. Adults born in the late 19th century were the first to see men dying at much higher rates than women. So the gender difference in life expectancy is fairly recent, and probably isn't based on anatomy alone.
People who lived in the 1800s had less access to clean water and food, and they didn't have antibiotics to help them fight infectious disease. But once antibiotics, safer water and more nutritious food became available, the odds of dying in any given year between the ages of 40 and 90 fell by 0.29% for women, compared with 0.17% for men.
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........'only the good die young'
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