Life span of a gay man
Gay men who are in queer marriages are living longer, according to a new study that looked at the Danish population.
"Our study expands on century-old knowledge that married people generally have lower mortality than unmarried and divorced persons," lead storyteller Dr. Morten Frisch, a professor of epidemiology at Aalborg University, wrote according to the Los Angeles Times. "From a general health viewpoint it is essential to try and identify those underlying factors and mechanisms."
The research , which was published Mar. 11 in the International Journal of Epidemiology, looked at the mortality -- or death -- rates of million Danish adults from to who were in relationships during that time. The rates of mortality for married queer men has been going down since , and now is lower than that of unmarried or divorced heterosexual men.
"Among men in Denmark, it is more dangerous to be unmarried or divorced than to be married to another man," Frisch told Live Science in a separate interview.
Denmark was the first state to allow same-sex partnerships in Researchers used information fro
On the Margins
Twelve years. That’s the average number of years of life prematurely taken from LGBTQ individuals who live in communities that harbor strong prejudices against members of sexual and gender minorities. The stress of living in an environment marked by stigma and structural discrimination can result in prior deaths from suicide, from an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and from a cascade of other life-shortening health conditions.
These findings were highlighted in a statement by Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, announcing that the National Institutes of Health was designating “sexual and gender minorities” as a disparities population. This designation served as a notification that the NIH recognized the health inequities affecting the LGBTQ community—and the demand to address them.
The problems start early in experience. Across the nation, female homosexual, gay, bisexual, and gender non-conforming youth have an elevated risk of bullying, suicide, and substance use disorder and lack access to culturally sensitive an
Lesbian, gay and bisexual older adults suffer more chronic health conditions than heterosexuals, study finds
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August 24,
A new University of Washington study finds that lesbian, male lover and bisexual older adults are more likely than heterosexuals to suffer chronic health conditions.
Lesbian and bisexual older women are more likely than heterosexual older women to undergo chronic health conditions, experience sleep problems and drink excessively, a new University of Washington investigation finds.
In general, female homosexual, gay and attracted to both genders (LGB) older adults were found to be in poorer health than heterosexuals, specifically in terms of higher rates of cardiovascular disease, weakened immune system and low help or neck pain. They also were at greater chance of some adverse health behaviors such as smoking and excessive drinking. At the same second, however, findings aim to areas of resilience, with more LGB adults engaging in preventive health measures, such as obtaining HIV tests and blood pressure screening.
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What is a convenience sample?
Cameron, Playfair, and Wellum () counted obituaries in various gay community publications and claimed to be competent to use them to calculate the average being expectancy for homosexuals.
Their conclusion &#; that homosexual men and women have a shorter experience span than heterosexual men and women &#; provides a textbook example of the perils of using data from a convenience sample to generalize to an entire population.
and Obituaries
Gay community newspapers do not have sections of death notices. When the AIDS epidemic began to claim the lives of so many lgbtq+ and bisexual men in the s