Heart disease is the predominant global cause of death for men and women. Gender influences the biological, psychological and social factors of death due to diseases of the heart. According to the dataset [from where], women are more at risk in New York City from death caused by diseases of the heart in comparison to men. Within the dataset, the number of deaths due to heart disease in men and women decrease annually. However, the number of women to men dying each year due to heart disease is still higher. By analyzing the data set, we examined various factors that caused death due to diseases of the heart to be more prominent in women than in men such as reactions to stress differing in both genders, hormones appearing at different levels in both genders and social environments that both genders are exposed to. The data demonstrates that no matter the ethnicity, gender is still a large factor in determing risk for diseases. Because there are no clear numbers regarding ethnicity out of the entire population, it is impossible for us to determine whether the variation in numbers is significant.
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/seminar3posters/files/gravity_forms/1-f14ea90e75361cb91bd42582a860ee01/2014/12/Gender-and-Disease-in-New-York.pdf
Angel Ho, Christina Zhu
David Munns, Kevin Ambrose
John Jay College
gender, disease, nyc, open data
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