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Why do women live longer than men?

10 December 2018

Professor David Gems (UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing) explains men experience more illness than women because they have just one set of chromosomes; Professor Lorraine Sherr (UCL Infection & Population Health) has showed men are 73% more likely than women to be in car accidents.

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