One man in five dies before the age of 65.
TOGETHER we can change that.

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Our Manifesto

In the UK, one man in five dies before he reaches 65. Together, we can change that.

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Men's Health Week

The annual Men’s Health Week is the week that ends in Fathers' Day. Get involved.

Mini Manual Sources: Heart

Sources used in the Heart publication

The MHF is committed to fully participating in NHS England’s Information Standard Scheme for health and social care information. We intend to comply with all aspects and requirements of the Scheme Standard.

A list of sources for the Heart mini-manual follows:

Healthy Eating (page 3):
•http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/prevention/healthy-eating.aspx
• Bray, GA, for the DASH Collaborative Group, "The Effect of Dietary Patterns on Blood Pressure: Results From the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Clinical Trial." Current Concepts in Hypertension, November, 1998, 4-5
 

Heavy weight Issues (page 4): 40 inches:
•http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/tools.htm#circumf
• Lawrence de Koning; Merchant, AT; Pogue, J; Anand, SS (2007). "Waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio as predictors of cardiovascular events: meta-regression analysis of prospective studies". European Heart Journal 28 (7): 850.
 

Good Gut Size: Impact of Obesity (page 5)
• http://www.nationalobesityforum.org.uk/healthcare-professionals-mainmenu-155/background-to-obesity-mainmenu-163/116-impact-of-obesity.html
• Mokdad AH, Ford ES, Bowman BA, Dietz WH, Vinicor F, Bales VS, Marks JS: Prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and obesity-related health risk factors, 2001. JAMA 289:76–79, 2003
 

Coronary Heart Disease (page 6):
• http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/conditions/coronary-heart-disease.aspx
• Underwood and Cross, James, (2009). General ans Systematic Pathology. London: Churchhill livingstone. pp. 279.
 

Y Chromosome (page 7):
• http://www.bhf.org.uk/default.aspx?page=14255
• http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61453-0/abstract%20
 

Blood Pressure (page 8):
• http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/conditions/high-blood-pressure.aspx
• Lakka TA, Salonen R, Kaplan GA, Salonen JT. 1999 Blood pressure and the progression of carotid atherosclerosis in middle aged men. Hypertension. 34:51–56.
 

High blood pressure is more common among people of African-Caribbean descent (page 8): •http://www.stroke.org.uk/campaigns/raising_awareness/communities.html
• Klag MJ, Whelton PK, Randall BL, Neaton JD, Branccati FL, Stamler J. 1997 End-stage renal disease in African American and white men; 16-year MRFIT findings. JAMA. 227:1293–1298.
 

Alcohol (page 12):
• http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/prevention/healthy-eating/alcohol.aspx
• Prospective study of alcohol drinking patterns and coronary heart disease in women and men, Centre for Alcohol Research, National Institute of Public Health, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Dk-1399 Copenhagen, Denmark, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA, Accepted March 7, 2006.
 

Quit Smoking (page 14):
• http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/prevention/smoking.aspx
• Peto, R., Smoking and death: the past 40 years and the next 40. BMJ, 1994. 309(6959): p. 937-9.
 

Erectile Dysfunction in Smokers (page 15-16):
• http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Erectile-dysfunction/Pages/Introduction.aspx
• Millett C, Wen LM, Rissel C, et al. Smoking and erectile dysfunction: findings from a representative sample of Australian men. Tobacco Control 2006; 15: 136–139. doi: 10.1136/tc.2005.015545Gades NM, Nehra A, Jacobson DJ et al. Association between smoking and erectile dysfunction: a population-based study. Am J Epidemiol. 2005; 161: 346-351.
 

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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