Sex differences in susceptibility, severity, and outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019: Cross-sectional analysis from a diverse US metropolitan area

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 1; p. e0245556
• Main Authors: Vahidy, Farhaan S., Pan, Alan P., Ahnstedt, Hilda, Munshi, Yashasvee, Choi, Huimahn A., Tiruneh, Yordanos, Nasir, Khurram, Kash, Bita A., Andrieni, Julia D., McCullough, Louise D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 13.01.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Asthma; Bilirubin; Biology and life sciences; Blood pressure; Body mass; Body mass index; Body size; Bronchitis; C-reactive protein; Calcium-binding protein; Cardiology; Cerebrovascular diseases; Cities - epidemiology; Comorbidity; Complications; Confidence intervals; Congestive heart failure; Coronary artery disease; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - diagnosis; COVID-19 - epidemiology; Creatinine; Cross-Sectional Studies; Dementia disorders; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Dimers; Disease Susceptibility; Earth Sciences; Editing; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Family income; Female; Females; Ferritin; Gender aspects; Gender differences; Health risks; Health surveillance; Heart failure; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; Hypertension; Hypoxia; Immune response; Liver; Liver diseases; Lung diseases; Lymphocytes; Male; Males; Medical schools; Medicine and Health Sciences; Methodology; Metropolitan areas; Middle Aged; Minority & ethnic groups; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Neurology; Oxygen; Oxygen content; Pandemics; Paraplegics; Patients; Population density; Prognosis; Public health; Renal failure; Respiration; Respiratory distress syndrome; Respiratory rate; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Severity of Illness Index; Sex differences; Sex Distribution; Sex factors in disease; Sexually transmitted diseases; Social Sciences; Sociodemographics; STD; United States - epidemiology; Vascular diseases; Ventilators; Viral diseases; United States; Cities; New York; United States > US; China

Sex is increasingly recognized as an important factor in the epidemiology and outcome of many diseases. This also appears to hold for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Evidence from China and Europe has suggested that mortality from COVID-19 infection is higher in men than women, but evidence fro...