Women fight with death better

One study found that the survival rate of women was significantly higher than that of men who were injured or seriously ill.

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' Some people think that women are weak. But when injured, women proved to be superior to men for survival , "said Dr Adil H. Haider of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the US.

In an article in the American magazine Trauma, Haider said, he and his colleagues collected data on the survival rate of 48,394 people who suffered serious injuries. They are people with alarmingly low blood pressure as a result of injury. Based on age, the study subjects are divided into 3 groups: under 12 years, over 65 years old and from 13 to 64 years old. In general, the group under the age of 12 and over 65 has a lower level of female hormone than the age group of 13-64.

Among the population aged 12 and under, 29% of men died, while the figure for women was 24%. For people aged 13 - 64, the death rate in men is 34% and for women is 30%. For groups over 65, 36% of men did not survive injury, while in women was 31%.

Haider said, after considering factors such as age, severity, type of injury, how injured, they found that the survival rate of women was 14% higher than men. In addition, there may be other factors that affect, but female hormones are likely to be the most important factor for survival.

"A high probability of surviving a woman's trauma can be traced back to sexual hormones. In some cases, female hormones can help strengthen the human immune system ," Haider admitted. determined.

However, the team is still unclear whether female sex hormones like estrogen or low testosterone levels of male sex hormones are factors that increase the survival rate of injuries. In addition, this study was conducted only on a group of injured people.

In the future, scientists want to measure the amount of hormones in people who are seriously injured to check whether the amount of sex hormones are different that affects their ability to survive.