Male Life Expectancy is Still Inferior to That of Women: Urologists Must Refine and Develop the Concept of Men's Health

Tharu Tharakan; Andrea Salonia; Suks Minhas; European Association of Urology Working Group on Male Sexual and Reproductive Health

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2019.07.052

Male Life Expectancy is Still Inferior to That of Women: Urologists Must Refine and Develop the Concept of Men's Health

Eur Urol. 2019 Dec;76(6):712-713. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2019.07.052. Epub 2019 Aug 14.

Authors

Tharu Tharakan¹, Andrea Salonia², Suks Minhas³; European Association of Urology Working Group on Male Sexual and Reproductive Health

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK; Section of Investigative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
² Division of Experimental Oncology/Unit of Urology, URI, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
³ Department of Urology, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK. Electronic address: suks.minhas@nhs.net.

PMID: 31420249
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2019.07.052

Abstract

Urologists can bridge the gender gap in life expectancy through the promotion of a holistic and streamlined approach to men's health that incorporates optimisation of lifestyle factors (smoking cessation, weight loss, diet) and comorbidities (treatment of hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, and hypogo-nadism) and offers cancer screening.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
Life Expectancy*
Male
Men's Health*
Physician's Role
Urology