Urinary tract infections are more common in women than in men because ________ .

a. the tendency to become infected is genetic and carried on the X chromosome
b. women tend to delay urination more than men
c. women urinate more frequently than men
d. a woman's urethra is much shorter
e. a woman's urethra is much longer than that of a man's


d. a woman's urethra is much shorter

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