ped economies, has greater detrimental impacts on the life expectancy of women than it has on men. Thus, an extension of this argument would indicate that, were in not for chronic obesity in developed economies, the gender-related variation in life expectancy would be even greater.
Similarly, Deimling, Bowman, Sterns, Wagner, and Kahana (2006) reported that worry-induced depression among cancer survivors concerning the potential for recurrence led to shortened life spans. The researchers reported that the detrimental effects were greater among women than among men. Again thus, an extension of this argument would indicate that, were in not for worry-induced depression among cancer survivors, the gender-related variation in life expectancy would be even greater.
Neumayer and Plümper (2007) stated that, "Biological and physiological differences between
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