Men appear to be dying disproportionately from preventable diseases and conditions way more than women, and in many cases it's their own damn fault: because they're refusing to go to the doctor until it's too late.

In interviews with the New York Times, doctors and public health experts expressed concerns with the state of men's preventative care, which they say many chaps tend to ignore — to their own peril.

Breaking this issue down between men and women is fraught for a number of reasons. For one thing, women's health has only been taken seriously by the medical establishment for the past few decades; the FDA wasn't even required to include women in clinical trials until 1993.

Still, there are some indications that medical reticence may be hurting men in sweeping ways.

According to a

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