The mortality rate of boys is significantly higher than for girls

Boys die more often than girls in industrialized countries, U.S. researchers reported. Scientists have. Mortality rates in 15 countries studied (11 European countries, Canada, USA, Japan and Australia) According to statistics, the biggest gap between the amount of boys and girls in 1970, when the boy by a 30% increase in age was reported died of one year. In the last three decades, the gap is reduced slightly. In this decade, the number of boys with a high risk of mortality is 20% more than the girls at the age of one year, said Eileen Crimmins of the University of Southern California. Reduce the risk of mortality among boys was on medical care, such as a caesarean section and intensive care for premature babies, which probably affect the ability of boys to survive, according to the researchers. The results showed that during the last century, the main causes of child mortality, congenital infections and associated complications related to prematurity. Boys are 60% more likely prematurely born which in turn lead to respiratory diseases, the researchers said. According to researchers, the risk of mortality boys alarmingly high today in many developed countries, the doctors need to provide them with proper medical care, if possible, to reduce the difference between the mortality rates of boys and girls.