Sex Differences in Biological Markers of Health in the Study of Stress, Aging and Health in Russia.

The apparent contradiction that women live longer but have worse health than men, the so called male-female health-survival paradox, is very pronounced in Russia. The present study investigates whether men in Moscow are healthier than women at the level of biomarkers, and whether the associations be...

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Main Authors: Anna Oksuzyan, Maria Shkolnikova, James W Vaupel, Kaare Christensen, Vladimir M Shkolnikov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4484801?pdf=render