Sentences with phrase «health than the heterosexual»

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Nearly 20 years of Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior (MA - YRB) data show that lesbian, gay, and bisexual students have remained at disproportionate health risk in many dimensions (e.g., victimization, violence, substance use, and unprotected sex) than their heterosexual peers.

According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, women have a life expectancy that is 4.6 years longer than men and (according to the U.S. Census Bureau) in nearly half of American heterosexual marriages, the husband is two or more years older than the wife.

A large majority of non-heterosexual people do not have depression or any other mental illness; however, the literature points towards strong trends for higher rates of depression, more depressive symptoms, and poorer mental health outcomes than heterosexual people.

Resultantly, LGBTQ people are more likely to have mental health disorders, such as depression and anxiety, than their heterosexual counterparts.