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 |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Anemia Critical Illness Short Communication Short Communications Renal function outcomes Logistic regression 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine COVID‐19 Interquartile range Virology Internal medicine medicine Humans Prospective Studies Sex Ratio 030212 general & internal medicine Prospective cohort study Aged SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Age Factors COVID-19 Odds ratio Middle Aged medicine.disease mortality Obesity Confidence interval Hospitalization female Infectious Diseases disease severity 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology business |
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 |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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