Article
Age- and sex-transcriptome analysis provide evidences for the sex biases in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 and other respiratory infectious diseases
2020-07-17
Abstract excerpt
Age and sex were shown to affect the prevalence and the manifestation of many respiratory infectious diseases. These can be attributed to age and sex related alterations in the immune system and in the lung functions. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, epidemiological studies consistently report that age and sex are major risk factors in both morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19. Thus, understanding age and sex de...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 20972eb3-47e5-5a6e-a979-bec6b725dfb9
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-43708/v1
