Millions of moaners vindicated: Man flu is 'a thing', says researcher, and big TVs are cure • The Register

Millions of moaners vindicated: Man flu is 'a thing', says researcher, and big TVs are cure • The Register
"Moaning men complaining they have "man flu" – a much more serious and, if sufferers are to be believed, potentially deadly version of the common cold – may actually have a point.

Canadian academic Kyle Sue investigated whether men are wimps or just immunologically inferior, in an article published in the British Medical Journal.
...He found some evidence that adult men have a higher risk of hospital admission and have higher rates of influenza-associated deaths compared with women in the same age groups, regardless of underlying disease.
For many acute respiratory diseases, males are also more susceptible to complications and exhibit a higher mortality. 
And some evidence supports men suffering more from viral respiratory illness than women because they have a less robust immune system.
...But he concluded that the concept of man flu, as commonly defined, is unfair. 
"Men may not be exaggerating symptoms but have weaker immune responses to viral respiratory viruses, leading to greater morbidity and mortality than seen in women."...
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