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

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

Tharu Tharakan  1 , Andrea Salonia  2 , Suks Minhas  3 ; European Association of Urology Working Group on Male Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Editorial

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

Tharu Tharakan et al. Eur Urol. 2019 Dec.

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.

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