Father's World | National Men's Health Week

Fact Sheet

Heart disease is the leading cause of death among men in the United States. Every 29 seconds, someone in this country will experience a coronary event; about every minute someone will die from one.
An estimated 180,410 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in 2000.
At least an estimated 2.5 million men, or one third of all men with the disease, don’t know that they have diabetes.
Typically, the life expectancy of women has been higher than men—by about 7 years. This year, for the first time in several years, the gap is closing to 6 years.
Nearly 830,000 men (ages 25-64) died from heart disease in 1997.
An estimated 31,900 men will die from prostate cancer in 2000, it is the second leading cause of cancer death in men.

American men, 45-64 years old, suffer from an estimated 218,000 heart attacks a year. Women in the same age group suffer 74,000 heart attacks annually.

In 2000, the estimated bulk of government funding for breast cancer research will be approximately $501 million. Funding for prostate cancer will be $260 million.

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