*** 6분영어( Is'man flu' real?) > 중.고등교육 게시판

쑥쑥 친구들 !
2018년이 시작되었습니다.

모두 새해 복 많이 받으시고

올 한해도 행복한 일 가득한 한 해 되시길 바라요 ^^

건강하세요~.

매년 겨울이면 flu로 고생하는 분들이 많지요?

올헤도 A형, B형 독감 확진받아 학교도 못가고 아팠던 분들도 많았던것 같아요.

이번주 6분영어 주제는 flu 인데.... 정말 남자가 독감이 걸리면 더 많이 아픈걸까요?

scientific evidence가 있다는 article이 나왔다니 ㅎㅎ

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For a while now, the expression 'man flu' has been controversial.

Many men say their illness is real, while many women say they are just being weak. But why is it that some men seem to suffer, or complain, more when they get sick than women?

A recently published study may have the answer. Can science prove that men really do suffer more, or do they just moan instead of getting on with it?

‘Man flu’ is the tendency that many people believe men have to complain about a minor illness, such as a cold or flu, and act as if they were suffering from something a lot more serious.

But science cannot say whether men do actually suffer more than women, or if men just tend to complain more.

A recent scientific study has indicated that there could be something to ‘man flu’ after all. Doctor Kyle Sue, an assistant professor of family medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, has suggested that there could be a difference between men and women when it comes to respiratory diseases.

Doctor Kyle Sue (Memorial University, Newfoundland)

It seems that the higher the testosterone levels, the lower the immune response to these types of infections, whereas the higher the oestrogen level, the stronger the immune response.

Testosterone and oestrogen are hormones that exist in both men and women. Testosterone is higher in males and oestrogen is higher in females. Dr. Sue’s research suggests that the more oestrogen a person has, the better able they are to fight off the infection. That’s it then! Man flu is real!

There are two problems. First of all, the Royal college of GPs in the UK says that there is no such thing as ‘man flu’. And secondly, even Dr Sue admits that these results, including his own, are only ‘suggestive’ and are not ‘definitive’.

참고자료 : http://time.com/5060429/what-is-man-flu/

By JAMIE DUCHARME December 12, 2017

TIME Health

If you’ve ever noticed that men seem to whine about being sick far more than women do, you’re not alone. There’s even a word for the male tendency to exaggerate their suffering: “man flu.”

But are men really exaggerating, or might their experience of being sick actually feel worse than it does for women? Dr. Kyle Sue, a family medicine professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, wanted to find out, so he pored over as much ***-related flu research as he could find. His review was published Monday in the famously cheeky Christmas issue of the BMJ—and though it doesn’t present any new findings, it’s likely to make men feel pretty smug about feeling sick.

Based on the existing research, Sue concluded that the man flu moniker is “potentially unjust,” citing studies that suggest men are not exaggerating their symptoms, but instead truly have weaker immune responses than women.

TIME Health Newsletter

A number of studies conducted in mice or human cell samples suggest that differences in male and female *** and stress hormones may affect influenza outcomes, to the benefit of women, Sue writes. However, human studies have been mostly epidemiological: looking at trends and patterns within a population, rather than a controlled experiment within a lab.

Still, these studies and surveys suggest that men with influenza are more likely than women with influenza to die or need hospitalization; that women tend to be more responsive to flu vaccines than men; and that men self-report taking longer to recover from viral respiratory illnesses than women, Sue writes.

Some studies, he adds, have also suggested that testosterone may suppress the immune system, pointing to a potential evolutionary basis for man flu. Strength and virility were once more important than immunity for testosterone-charged men, he writes, who were likely “to die from trauma before an infection kills them.” By that logic, man flu could even be a defense mechanism, keeping weakened men laid up and away from predators and competitors during the recovery process.

There are major limitations to these studies: among them the biases of the author, the low-level quality of some of the evidence and a failure of the review to take into account ***-related behavioral differences. Sue, who acknowledges these barriers, calls for further research to help determine if the phenomenon is truly psychological, or if there’s a physiological basis to man flu.

Vocabulary

the sniffles

a cold (informally)

(ex) If you have the sniffles, you have a cold, informally speaking. What's the best cure for the sniffles Neil?