gawk (gÉËk ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense gawks , present participle gawking , past tense , past participle gawked. verb. To gawk at someone or something means to stare at them in a rude, stupid, or unthinking way. [informal]
Unfortunately, a lot of women have added a fourth risk factor to the mix â obesity. Overall, women have osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, at much higher rates than men. Experts estimate that almost 27 million people in the United States have osteoarthritis, and that about 60 percent of them are women.en are more prone to experience arthritis in their hips, while women tend to have it in the knees or hands, he says. There are several reasons why these differences occur. They include: 1  Biology. 2  Womenâs bodies are designed to give birth, and that means the tendons in their lower body are more elastic than menâs.
Men in their fifties do not experience the rapid loss of bone mass that women do in the years following menopause. By age 65 or 70, however, men and women are losing bone mass at the same rate, and the absorption of calcium, an essential nutrient for bone health throughout life, decreases in both sexes.Excessive bone loss causes bone to become fragile and more likely to fracture.t is increasingly common for women to be diagnosed with osteoporosis or low bone mass using a BMD test, often at midlife when doctors begin to watch for signs of bone loss. In men, however, the diagnosis is often not made until a fracture occurs or a man complains of back pain and sees his doctor.