The research conducted by University College London, the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found unmarried men suffered more negative health effects than single women.
Women showed significantly more psychogenic disorders, men suffered more from CHD, trauma and pneumonia and/or pleurisy (see table 2).
Regarding functional inabilities, women more often had sleeping difficulties, depression and distress while men suffered more often from impaired sexual performance.
While Somali men and women suffered equally (48.1%, n = 126; 48%, n = 122) respectively, Rwandese men suffered more from PTSD than the women (38.9%, n = 143; 27.3%, n = 147).
Other symptoms that were found to be more prevalent in women than in men include nervousness, sadness, depression and constipation, whereas men suffered more from daytime sleepiness, dribbling and sex-related symptoms (Martinez-Martin and Falup, 2012).
Women showed more psychogenic disorders (women 11,2%, men 7.3%, p = 0.02), men suffered more from CHD (women 13.0%, men 17.2%, p = 0.04), trauma (women 1.8%, men 5.1%, p < 0.001) and pneumonia/pleurisy (women 1.3%, men 3.0%, p = 0.04) Men showed significantly more often chest pain localised on the right side of the chest (women 9.1%, men 25.0%, p = 0.01).
Generally, women suffer more than men in qualitative aspects of ill-health, such as self-reported physical and psychological suffering, while men suffer more than women in quantitative aspects of ill-health, such as lifestyles leading to earlier deaths.
Gay Men Less Stressed: A Canadian study suggests that heterosexual men suffer more depression and higher levels of stress than gay and bisexual men, reports The Telegraph.
"In some ways I think men suffer more.
These findings are inconsistent with Kind and Haisken-DeNew (2012), who found that the life satisfaction of young German men suffers more as a result of their parents' job loss than does that of their female peers.
84 DM men suffer more frequently from onychomycosis and onychodystrophy than DM women.
