MALE MENOPAUSE: HEALTH AND CHECK-UPS (INTRODUCTION)
Make an appointment with a doctor for a total check-up.
At around forty this is a sign of wisdom and careful body-management not hypochondria, the sign of a man determined to survive life in the best possible healthy way.
At about this age serious ailments are inclined to strike men, the problem ills brought on primarily by the pressures of modern life, like stress, and those that have developed with our society as we have grown more affluent, like heart disease. Heart disease today is to men what breast cancer is to women. One man in every ten now aged thirty-five will die from coronary heart disease before he reaches sixty.
If more men had regular check-ups this figure could be lessened considerably. Problems could be identified sooner and medication or treatment could begin before they became grave or possibly fatal. It is a comforting fact despite this pessimistic outlook however that although many men do rush to their doctor in panic fearing the worst and thinking they have the symptoms of a chronic heart condition, an estimated fifty per cent of them will have not a heart problem but chest pains brought on by those two now over-familiar reactions to today’s life: stress and anxiety.
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