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The COVID-19 Mortality Puzzle: A Single Explanation for Why Men, Elders, People of Color, and Hypertensives are Dying from Coronavirus

2021-03-16

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Oxidative stress, particularly through excess endogenous NADPH-oxidase production of oxygen free-radicals, is proposed here as the single unifying framework for explaining the seemingly puzzling range of risk factors for severe coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection including aging, male gender, African-American race, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes. Evidence is presented that death rate as a function of...

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Literature Corpus work: e2369952-ced4-5a87-b9aa-786e3520be49
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3729674

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