Introduction:

The way life ends it is an expression of the way it was lived. Women and men do not live life equally and they neither share the same biological characteristics, which are different for each sex.

Objectives:

To identify the trends related to the risk of dying among both sexes and the main causes of death from 2005 to 2016, and the risk of dying prematurely from 2009 to 2016.

Methods:

Time series with the main causes of death among men and women were made and it was analyzed the trend by means of straight regression or moving averages. The possible reasons were identified through in-depth interviews to experts in gender and health.

Results:

There were found three groups of causes of death. In the first, there were: malignant tumors, heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, influenza and pneumonia, accidents; respiratory, arteries, arterioles and capillary vessels chronic diseases. The second group was formed by liver cirrhosis and other diseases of the liver and self-inflicted injuries. The third group consisted in diabetes mellitus. The trend continued without an outstanding variation over time in almost all of the analyzed series. Various reasons were found that could affect the group of causes of death that went from the biological to those dealing with the consequences of gender identity.

Discussion:

Men are those who submitted a disadvantage since the risk of dying and the risk of dying prematurely was superior to the women in the majority of the studied causes, mainly because of diabetes mellitus.

Conclusions:

Mortality trends among men and women and the main causes of death and of premature mortality evidenced differences between the sexes being males the most affected in long term.

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