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"Healthy Men" and High Mortality: Contributions from a Population-Based Study for the Gender Paradox Discussion

BACKGROUND: Inequalities between men and women in morbidity and mortality show a contrast, which has been called gender paradox. Most studies evaluating this paradox were conducted in high-income countries and, until now, few investigations have been performed in Brazil. This study aims to estimate...

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Autores principales: Bastos, Tássia Fraga, Canesqui, Ana Maria, Barros, Marilisa Berti de Azevedo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26641245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144520