04
December
2016
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18:52
Asia/Singapore

Study: Women live longer but less healthily compared to men

The SG90 Longevity Cohort Study, involving Prof Koh Woon Puay from Duke-NUS Medical School and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, as well as 2 Asst Prof Feng Lei from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, found that while women in Singapore tend to outlive men, they are more likely than men to be in poorer health.