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Source for the 7% statistic

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[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That's wild considering most men never go to the doctors willingly

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

As many have pointed out, this did not mean 93% is focused on men, it means that 7% is exclusively about women's health. I strongly suspect the vast majority is not gender specific (men's issues I would hope are smaller than 7% by a wide margin, since there's not much that goes too wrong that is inherent to men's physiology and much of it is more cosmetic in nature, while women specific health issues tend to be more dire.

So, to make up a number, it could be that 90% is generic across general human biology. So that the results could be applied to everyone so they catch the women going to the doctor as well as the men, if your assumption were true

[–] plzExplainNdetail@slrpnk.net 5 points 17 hours ago

Yes, but consider that there was likely a financial incentive to be part of the trials.