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.
Overall, arthritis affected 17.5% of females in Australia in 2007-08, compared with 12.9% of males. Osteoarthritis affected 9.7% of females and only 5.9% of males, while rheumatoid arthritis affected 2.6% of females and 1.6% of males.Similarly, 5.5% of females had osteoporosis in 2007-08, compared with only 1.2% of males (graph 2.5).f those persons with arthritis, the two most prevalent forms were osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. These accounted for 51% (1.6 million) and 14% (428,500) of all cases respectively.