@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00015394,
 author = {OHNO, YOSHIYUKI and HAMAJIMA, NOBUYUKI and SASAKI, RYUICHIRO and AOKI, KUNIO},
 issue = {3-4},
 journal = {Nagoya Journal of Medical Science},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {Sex differences in deaths from nineteen intractable diseases were devotedly examined by the 95 percent confidence interval for a ratio of male deaths to female deaths in 1977-1980, Japan. Few intractable diseases failed to demonstrate an appreciable difference in frequency between the sexes. What interestingly emerged from the analysis were an obvious female predominance in intractable diseases for which autoimmune mechanisms are presumably incriminated and either male or female predisposition to intractable diseases in which the vascular system is principally affected. Possible etiological implications of different frequency of disease by sex and age were also discussed. Sex- and age-oriented investigations are finally believed to be of extreme importance particularly for intractable diseases.},
 pages = {79--87},
 title = {Epidemiological Features of Intractable Diseases in Japan: Variations in Deaths by Sex And Age},
 volume = {45},
 year = {1983}
}