In spite of women’s greater longevity, the incidence of debilitating diseases – fractures caused by osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, strokes, incontinence of urine, and cancer – is much higher in their case than among men of the same age.
Malgré leur plus grande longévité, les femmes âgées sont significativement plus atteintes que les hommes de leur âge par des maladies invalidantes – fractures d'ostéoporose, arthrose, polyarthrite rhumatoïde, ictus, incontinence, cancer, etc.