MEN'S HEALTH
Men are notorious for avoiding the doctor and ignoring unusual symptoms. This may help explain why women tend to live longer. Don’t let complacency take a toll on your health.
Schedule yearly checkups with your doctor and keep these appointments. Your doctor can help monitor your weight, blood pressure, and the level of cholesterol in your blood. Excess weight, high blood pressure, and high blood cholesterol are risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Your doctor can recommend lifestyle changes, medications, or other treatments to help get your weight, blood pressure, and blood cholesterol under control.
Men are assailed by the diseases that can affect anyone—heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, depression… But they also have unique issues such as prostate cancer and benign prostate enlargement.
Men's health refers to a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, as experienced by men, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Some facts about men's health are fairly well known: On average, men die 3.7 years earlier than women. Men go to the doctor less than women. Men are three times more likely to die from suicide than women.
Patients may be referred to a urologist if their physician suspects they may need treatment for a condition relating to bladder, urethra, ureters, kidneys, and adrenal glands. In men, urologists treat disorders related to the epididymis, penis, prostate, seminal vesicles, and the testes.
LaMonica Hodges, NP
Licensed to practice in:MS, VA, AZ, WA, OR, NV, CO, IL, NM, FL, MI, AL, DC,
Family Medicine
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- Language: English
