diff --git a/man2/stat.2 b/man2/stat.2
index 6c55d819e..5f5bbb884 100644
--- a/man2/stat.2
+++ b/man2/stat.2
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@ is identical to
 except that the file about which information is to be retrieved
 is specified by the file descriptor
 .IR fd .
-.PP
+.\"
+.SS The stat structure
 All of these system calls return a
 .I stat
 structure, which contains the following fields:
@@ -307,7 +308,8 @@ is not updated if a file is opened with the
 .BR O_NOATIME
 flag; see
 .BR open (2).
-.PP
+.\"
+.SS The file type and mode (st_mode)
 POSIX refers to the
 .I st_mode
 bits corresponding to the mask