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While I don't want to dismiss the possibility that women do suffer more preventable deaths at the hands of, or because of neglect by, the healthcare industry (or because of their own reluctance to seek health care soon enough, as with the heart attack issue discussed around Thanksgiving), what is the reason they chose age 75 as their maximum? What would happen to the percentages if they picked as the maximum 65 or 60 - ages at which most women AND men are far less likely to die because of a health problem? Before the age, in other words, that more men start dying due to non-preventable health problems.
I could not see the whole study, only an abstract.
