In the industrialized world large differences between male and female age-specific mortality rates exist, favouring the female sex.These differences vary over time and depend on the type of disease. This study intends to define the problem by determining the male/female (M/F) ratio of mortality for different disease groups and 2 time periods, 1970 and 1999.
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J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle
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Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
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The School of Clinical Medicine, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, 350122, China.
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