Impact of gender on patients hospitalized for SARS‐COV‐2 infection: A prospective observational study

Autor: Teresa De Falco, Elisa Calabrò, Spinello Antinori, Alice Pedroli, Letizia Oreni, Anna Lisa Ridolfo, Andrea Giacomelli, Antonio Brucato, Cecilia Bonazzetti, Giorgia Carrozzo
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Medical Virology
ISSN: 1096-9071
0146-6615
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.26933
Popis: Biological sex could affect the natural history of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. We enrolled all COVID‐19 patients admitted to two COVID‐19 hospitals in Milan in a prospective observational study. The primary outcome was death during the study period and the secondary outcome was critical disease at hospital admission. The association(s) between clinically relevant, noncollinear variables, and the primary outcome was assessed with uni‐ and multivariable Logistic regression models. A total of 520 patients were hospitalized of whom 349 (67%) were males with a median age 61 (interquartile range: 50–72). A higher proportion of males presented critically ill when compared to females (30.1% vs. 18.7%, p
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