Researchers from the Beijing hospital and Beijing Tongren Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan Union Hospital said that men and women with equal frequency infected with the novel coronavirus, but men carry the disease harder and more likely to die. The findings of scientists published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health.
The researchers based their findings on 43 patients that they were treating themselves, and on 1019 patients from all over China.
The authors concluded that male gender is a risk factor for development of severe and fatal outcome COVID-19, regardless of age and health status of the patient.
Scientists have calculated that men have twice more chances to die from mers than women. According to them, the proportion of men among the victims of the coronavirus is 70.3 percent.
The researchers noted that the role of gender it is necessary to study on a large group of patients from all over the world, as the lives of men and women varies in different countries. In China, for example, Smoking 50 percent of men and five percent women. Smoking in earlier studies is associated with severe COVID-19.
As reported by the Rambler, at the end of January, China released a report with estimates of the risks of coronavirus based on the analysis of 2744 cases. The paper noted that the ratio of men and women among the infected patients made up 1.16:1.
Scientists assumed that the cells of the lungs of men contain more molecules of the receptor ACE2 than lung cells of women. The new coronavirus uses ACE2 molecules to penetrate into the body.
