Women generally have a later age of onset than men. The average age of a man's first psychotic episode is 18, while a woman's is 25. Women generally have a higher rate of paranoid schizophrenia compared to other types. Women more often have problems with affect (i.e. having inappropriate emotional responses or not showing responses), but also generally have better lives after recovery.
Schizophrenia does not affect more males than females. However, males are affected earlier and more severely, for unknown reasons, than females.
Schizophrenia is equally prevalent in men and women.
The incidence is about equal between men and women.
Teenagers and young adults are most likely to get schizophrenia. Women with schizophrenia are more likely to have less severe schizophrenia and have paranoid schizophrenia, as well as developing schizophrenia at an average age of 25; men have a more severe course, with higher rates of disorganized and catatonic schizophrenia as well as developing schizophrenia at the average age of 18.
Although males tend to have a longer and more severe course of schizophrenia, meaning that at any one time more males than females will have schizophrenia, the lifetime incidence of schizophrenia is the same among both genders.
The genders get schizophrenia at about the same rates. However, men have a more severe course and an earlier onset than do women.
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In men, most cases of schizophrenia happen during the mid to late teens. In women, most cases happen in the mid twenties.
Anyone can be an emotional abuser regardless of gender. It's important to recognize and address emotional abuse whenever it occurs in any type of relationship.
Yes, women are more likely to achieve Alzheimer's disease then men.
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The overall prevalence of schizophrenia in the general American population is less than 2%. It strikes both men and women and tends to run in families. It is diagnosed more in African Americans, but that is likely due to psychologist bias than it being a real trend.
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Men are three times as likely as women to be stricken with diverticulitis