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Published in: Immunity & Ageing 1/2013

Open Access 01-12-2013 | Editorial

Sex, gender and immunosenescence: a key to understand the different lifespan between men and women?

Authors: Calogero Caruso, Giulia Accardi, Claudia Virruso, Giuseppina Candore

Published in: Immunity & Ageing | Issue 1/2013

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Gender and sex are known to be associated with longevity. While males are usually stronger, females live longer. In the Western world, the life expectancy of individual born between 2005 and 2010 is 80.4 for women and 73.4 for men [1]. Potential factors have been examined to explain this disagreement. It is possible distinguish advantage in longevity related to biological traits and factors related to socio-cultural characteristics of the population. Males and females have different behavioral tendencies, social responsibilities and expectation. So, differences in mortality between men and women can be not only a matter of sex that refers to biological differences, but also a matter of “socially constructed sex”, i.e. gender [2, 3]. …
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Metadata
Title
Sex, gender and immunosenescence: a key to understand the different lifespan between men and women?
Authors
Calogero Caruso
Giulia Accardi
Claudia Virruso
Giuseppina Candore
Publication date
01-12-2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Immunity & Ageing / Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1742-4933
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4933-10-20

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