Gender differences in mortality and life expectancy vary by country. But in most countries, men live shorter lives than women (see figure). In Russia, for instance, the difference between male and female life expectancy is 13 years (59 vs. 72).he difference in male and female life expectancy has narrowed in recent years, from at least 7.7 years from 1972-1979 to 5.2 years in 2004, according to the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
A pulmonologist (sometimes referred to as a pulmonary disease specialist) is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions and diseases associated with the lungs.
To study illnesses of lungs and respiratory ways, to treat, spend preventive maintenance from a medical science there is such an area of a medical science as pulmonology. Pulmonology occurs from a Latin word pulmo - lung, logy - a science, the doctrine was allocated, that literally pulmonology is a science about lungs. Pulmonology as the science, studies illnesses of lungs, bronchial tubes, pleura and develops methods of their diagnostics, treatment, preventive maintenance.