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Gender susceptibility to COVID-19: a review of the putative role of sex hormones and X chromosome.

Journal of endocrinological investigation - 1 May 2021

Foresta C, Rocca M S, Di Nisio A

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BACKGROUND: The recent emergence of COVID-19 poses a global health emergency. One of the most frequently reported data is sex-related severity and mortality: according to the last available analysis on 239,709 patients in Italy, lethality is 17.7% in men and 10.8% in women, with 59% of total deaths being men. Interestingly, the infection rate is lower in males than in females, with 45.8% and 54.2% of positive...

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PMID: 32936429
DOI: 10.1007/s40618-020-01383-6
PMCID: PMC7492232

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