1. More women die from cardiovascular disease than men?

because it is underdiagnosed? men seem to have more cardio problems...

http://www.fauxpress.com/kimball/med...hcst/chart.htm

but no...

http://www.who.int/ncd_surveillance/...cg.104&Sex=all

so i would be interested to know whether he has a reference to a different (more recent) study.

4. Women are twice as likely to suffer from depression as men.

Gender Differences in the Prevalence of Somatic Versus Pure Depression: A Replication

OBJECTIVE: Using data from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) study, the author attempted to replicate the finding of the National Comorbidity Survey that the prevalence of depression associated with somatic symptoms was much higher among women than men. METHOD: The author reanalyzed data from the ECA study. He divided respondents into those who met criteria for major depression and exhibited appetite and sleep disturbances and fatigue (somatic depression) and those who met depression criteria but did not exhibit all of these somatic criteria (pure depression). RESULTS: The reanalysis revealed that the prevalence of somatic depression but not pure depression was much higher among women than men. Somatic depression was associated with high rates of pain; among women, it was associated with high rates of anxiety disorders and chronic dysphoria. CONCLUSIONS: The gender difference in depression may result from a difference in a specific type of depression—anxious somatic depression.

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/...ull/159/6/1051

____________________

Doesn't matter if a person is a doctor if they don't cite their references how can we assess whether their claims are true or not unless we do a google search and see whether the quality studies tend to support or disconfirm the claim?

I'd be wary of anybody making claims about 'facts' without providing quality references.