{"id":2827,"date":"2015-06-29T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2015-06-29T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:55:09","slug":"mens-health-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/06\/29\/2827\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Health Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/healthequity\/files\/2014\/08\/BlogPost12_DiverseMen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"136\" \/>June is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/men\/\">Men&#8217;s Health<\/a> Month. It&#8217;s important for men to be aware of their health and\u00a0seek treatment of diseases. \u00a0The life expectancy for men has gone from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr64\/nvsr64_02.pdf\">60.8\u00a0in 1940 to 76.4 in 2013<\/a> and the number on cause of death among men is heart disease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db131.pdf\">One-third <\/a>of U.S. men\u00a0were obese in 2011\u20132012. \u00a0Men aged 40\u201359 had a higher prevalence of obesity (39.4%) than did men aged 20\u201339 (29%) and men aged 60 and over (32%). However, there was no difference in the prevalence of obesity between men aged 20\u201339 and those aged 60 and over.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of \u00a0U.S. men under the age of 65 without\u00a0health insurance at time of interview\u00a0which dropped from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhis\/earlyrelease\/earlyrelease201406_01.pdf\">18% in 2013<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhis\/earlyrelease\/insur201506.pdf\">14.7% in 2014<\/a><strong>. \u00a0<\/strong>Also, the percentage of U.S. men who currently smoke cigarettes dropped slightly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhis\/earlyrelease\/earlyrelease201406_08.pdf\">20.5% in 2013<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhis\/earlyrelease\/earlyrelease201506_08.pdf\">18.9% in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/mens-health.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/mens-health.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/men\/\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/men\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June is Men&#8217;s Health Month. It&#8217;s important for men to be aware of their health and\u00a0seek treatment of diseases. \u00a0The life expectancy for men has gone from 60.8\u00a0in 1940 to 76.4 in 2013 and the number on cause of death among men is heart disease. One-third of U.S. men\u00a0were obese in 2011\u20132012. \u00a0Men aged 40\u201359<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}