Men are more likely to die from masculinity-challenging diabetes according to a new study. A University of Copenhagen follow-up study to assess the effects of personally tailored diabetes care in general practice has revealed that such care reduces mortality (both all-cause and diabetes-related) in women but not men. Discussing the different results for women versus men the authors said that structured personal diabetes care could provide women with significant attention and support and thus provide an incentive to treatment adherence. (Read: Handful of walnuts a day may keep diabetes away) They added that women accept disease and implement disease management
