Researchers don't know whether the later diagnoses are due to genetics, the environment, possible biases in the healthcare system - or some combination of reasons.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.For a wide range of diseases, diagnosis comes later in life for women than for men, according to a large Danish study.
"We're not just looking at one disease here, we're looking at all diseases and we are looking at an entire population, from cradle to grave," lead author Søren Brunak from the University of Copenhagen told Reuters Health by phone. Brunak and his team considered incidence rates of diseases in the 18 broad categories of the ICD-10 diagnosis system managed by the World Health Organization.
"On the other hand," she said,"being hospitalized is a sign of a serious illness, so adds significance to the diagnosis and supports that disease onset may be later in women."
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