He rose deliberately from his chair and came towards them across the soundless carpet. A little of the official atmosphere seemed to have fallen away from him with the Newspeak words, but his expression was grimmer than usual, as though he were not pleased at being disturbed. The terror that Winston already felt was suddenly shot through by a streak of ordinary embarrassment. It seemed to him quite possible that he had simply made a stupid mistake. For what evidence had he in reality that O’Brien was any kind of political conspirator? Nothing but a flash of the eyes and a single equivocal remark: beyond that, only his own secret imaginings, founded on a dream. He could not even fall back on the pretence that he had come to borrow the dictionary, because in that case Julia’s presence was impossible to explain. As O’Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped.
Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue.
‘You can turn it off!’ he said.
‘Yes,’ said O’Brien, ‘we can turn it off. We have that privilege.’
From " 1984 ", by George Orwell, 1949
It’s May 2020. At this time, about two thirds of women are addicted to their phones, compared to one third of men.
That technology addiction is causing women to have much higher rates of lifestyle- and cancer-related death, smoking-related cancer death, coronary vascular injury complication, lung cancer, respiratory system death, diabetes mortality, mental illness, depression, dementia, osteoporosis, melanoma and insomnia than men.
The rate of mental illness among females age 16-25 is three times that of males the same age.
The suicide rate among girls aged 10 to 14 years tripled from 1999 through 2014.
The good news is, it’s self-imposed.
We can turn the smart phones off. We have that privilege.
About two thirds of women are addicted to their phones, compared to one third of men.
Dementia is more common in women. The overall rate (prevalence) of dementia from all causes is higher in women (45%) than in men (28%).
There is a significantly higher risk of lifestyle-(HR 1.37 [1.04, 1.79]) and cancer-related deaths (HR 1.47 [1.08, 2.02]) among women. Regarding smoking-related cancer deaths, differences were even more pronounced. Among men, no significant difference in mortality was seen between control and intervention groups.
The incidence of coronary vascular injury complications is higher in women than in men.
The risks of lung cancers in non-smokers are higher in women than men. Young Women Now Have Higher Rates for Lung Cancer Than Men Worldwide.
Deaths due to diseases of the respiratory system rose 4% from 2017 to 2018. Deaths due to this cause increased by 5% in women and 3.2% in men.
The prevalence of osteoporosis is higher in women than in men in all age groups.
The effect of diabetes on all-cause mortality is 17% higher in women than men.
Melanoma is increasing in females in the age group (15-29) more so than males.
Women are twice as likely to have insomnia as men.
About twice as many women as men experience depression.
Women are 40% more likely than men to develop mental illness, with young women at particularly high risk.
The rate of mental illness among females age 16-25 is three times that of males the same age.
The suicide rate among women increased 50% from 2000 to 2016.
The suicide rate among girls aged 10 to 14 years tripled from 1999 through 2014.
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February 2003 - The sex ratio is 2.4 in Northern Europe, whereas it is 7.4 for Southern Europe and 5.0 for Western Europe. While stabilisation or even a decrease in the number of lung cancers in males has begun in most countries in Europe, mortality due to lung cancer is increasing in females .
July 3, 2008 - Dementia more common in women
The overall rate (prevalence) of dementia from all causes was higher in women (45%) than in men (28%).
“Study shows women–dementia link,” is the headline on the Channel 4 News website today. Women are “much more likely than men to be suffering from dementia when they reach the end of their lives” the website says. The US study showed that about 45% of women from a group of 911 people aged 90 years or older had dementia compared with 28% of men. The chance of having dementia doubled every five years after 90 years in women, but not in men.
(18% higher in women vs. men. Almost half of women with dementia at that age. - ed)
2011 - Acute Coronary Syndromes in Women
After adjusting for baseline characteristics and coronary artery size, the incidence of coronary vascular injury complications was higher in women than in men
May 22, 2013 - U.K. - Women 40% more likely than men to develop mental illness
June 1, 2016 - Reasons to rethink tanning
Due to the push for a tanned body , melanoma is increasing in females in the age group (15-29)- more so than males thanks to the pressure from the media
(Tanning is so “out”, and has been, for so long, that it’s amazing this excuse is even tabled. But it’s all they’ve got. - ed)
June 3, 2016 - Why Women Are Twice As Likely To Have Insomnia Than Men
August 5, 2016 - AIMS: The mortality rate in patients with STEMI is higher in women than in men
ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) is a very serious type of heart attack during which one of the heart’s major arteries (one of the arteries that supplies oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the heart muscle) is blocked.
September 29, 2016 - Women have higher rates of mental disorders than men , NHS survey finds
Women are more likely to have mental health problems than men, with young women at particularly high risk, the biggest survey of mental health disorder and treatment in England has found.
The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, conducted every seven years and based on interviews with a cross section of the general population aged 16 and over, found that one in six adults (17%) had a common mental disorder—one in five women (20.7%) and one in eight men (13.2%).1
May 25, 2017 - The overall control rate of hypertension was higher in women (51.3%) than in men (44.8%) .
June 14, 2018 - Suicide Rate in Women Jumps by 50%
December 25, 2018 - About one in three of the samples males were addicted, while two in three were female.
But why were so many females addicted to smartphones ?
“That’s a good question that I do not have an answer ,” Vaghefi said.
October 18, 2018 - Estimating the prevalence of osteoporosis in Australia
The prevalence of osteoporosis increased markedly with increasing age and was higher in women than in men in each age group.
December 11, 2018 - Higher mortality in women living in high-participation areas of a population-based health check and lifestyle intervention study
Objective
The aim was to study whether the effects of a population-based health check and lifestyle intervention differed according to study participation rate.
Methods
All persons living in 73 areas of Copenhagen County, Denmark, were included in the Inter99 randomized trial in 1999 (intervention group n = 11,483; control group n = 47,122). All persons in the intervention group were invited for health checks and were offered lifestyle counseling if they were at high risk of ischemic heart disease. Areas were divided into low 35–49%, middle 50–54% and high ≥ 55% health check participation. All persons were followed in registers for 10-year cause-specific mortality.
Results
In high-participation areas, there was a significantly higher risk of lifestyle-(HR 1.37 [1.04, 1.79]) and cancer-related deaths (HR 1.47 [1.08, 2.02]) among women in the intervention group than control group. Regarding smoking-related cancer deaths, differences were even more pronounced. Among men, no significant difference in mortality was seen between control and intervention groups.
Conclusions
The results of this paper suggest that among women , the health check and lifestyle intervention may increase the risk of lifestyle and cancer-related deaths.
December 28, 2018 - What are the sexual predilections of hypoventilation?
Primary alveolar hypoventilation occurs more commonly in male patients than in female patients. COPD also occurs more commonly in men than in women; however, because of increased smoking in women , the incidence is increasing in females.
(Smoking is as “out” as tanning. - ed)
2019 - The effect of diabetes on all-cause mortality is 17% higher in women than men
2020 - The statistics from NHS Digital show that more than one in four women aged 16-24 reported symptoms of common mental health conditions the previous week – a rise from 21% when the study was last carried out in 2007. Young women were three times as likely as men to report such symptoms, with rates of 9% among males of the same age, the figures show.
January 2, 2020 - Women and Atrial Fibrillation: Persistent Higher Risk of …
Compared to those without AF, the relative risk (RR) in mortality was higher in women compared with men: RR is 1.69 (95% CI, 1.50 to 1.90)
February 14, 2020 - Study: Young Women Now Have Higher Rates for Lung Cancer Than Men Worldwide
Women between the ages of 30 to 49 are being diagnosed with lung cancer at higher rates than men, at the same age and in many high-income countries, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Cancer. Even though smoking is the major risk factor for causing all types of lung cancer, the authors said that differences in smoking between men and women do not completely explain the pattern.
The study involved cancer researchers in Canada, France, and Ahmedin Jemal, DVM, PhD, and Lindsey A. Torre, MSPH from the American Cancer Society (ACS). They looked at incidence rates, which are the number of people diagnosed with lung cancer in the same year and country. They compared the rates between men and women:
in 5-year age groups, starting with 30 to 34 up to 60 to 64 in 40 countries across 5 continents, and over 5-year intervals, starting with 1993 to 1997 and ending with 2008 to 2012.
During those years, the incidence rates of men generally decreased across all ages in all countries. For women, the trend across countries was for the rates to remain the same or decline, but at a slower pace compared to men.
Historically, lung cancer rates have been higher in men mainly because of their smoking patterns. During the most recent period of the study, however, the rate was higher in women ages 30 to 49 in 6 countries: Canada, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and the US. The researchers found similar, but not statistically significant, trends in 23 other countries and across different levels of economic development, including several countries in Afria and Asia.
The higher rates in women were largely driven by the increases in adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer seen in smokers. This type of lung cancer is also the most common type seen in nonsmokers and is more likely to occur in young women.
“In most of the countries where young women [ages 30 to 49] had higher rates of lung cancer than young men, we found that women were smoking almost as much as men, but not more than them,” said Jemal, Scientific Vice-President of the ACS Surveillance and Health Services Research program. “This suggests that differences in the way men and women smoke doesn’t fully explain why the diagnosis rates in young women were higher than in young men.”
It’s possible that the higher risk of lung cancer in women is related to changes in the make-up of cigarettes over the years or the way women respond to the cancer-causing substances in tobacco, Jemal said. For instance, he noted:
More women started smoking in the years when filtered cigarettes were most common. Filtered cigarettes increase the risk of adenocarcinoma lung cancer due to the way tobacco smoke is distributed to the outer parts of the lungs.
Women may have different genetic risk factors for lung cancer than men, such as not being able to repair damaged DNA or having abnormal genes related to cancer development.
The authors called for more studies to identify reasons for higher lung cancer rates in women in many countries.
“Our findings forewarn of a higher lung cancer burden in women than men at older ages in the decades to follow, especially in higher-income areas,” said Jemal. He and the other authors recommend continued, yet intensified, actions to help people stop smoking and prevent them from starting to smoke or using other tobacco products.
This study was an extension to a previous study about higher incidence rates of lung cancer in young women than young men in the US, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2018 and written by researchers from the ACS and the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.
