Gender has an enormous influence on the course of Corona disease.
After evaluating 90 studies, researchers found an explanation why men are more likely to get seriously ill.
The fact that men develop severe Covid-19 more often than women * is nothing new.
Researchers around the world are concerned with the question of which factors favor severe corona disease.
In a new meta-study, which is based on 90 individual studies, a South African-British research team deals with the question of why men belong to the corona risk group.
Doctors around the world are observing that more men have to be treated with severe Covid-19 than women in corona wards.
In conclusion, it has not yet been clarified which factors have a significant impact on the severity of coronavirus infections: However, countless studies are running around the world to clarify this question.
Scientists around Kate Webb from the University of Cape Town and Claire Deakin from the University Kolleg in London recently analyzed 90 Covid-19 studies to find out
why men are more likely to become seriously ill
.
In total, the data from almost 3,111,800 corona patients were evaluated in the meta study.
One of the most surprising results:
men and women contract the coronavirus about the same frequency, but the researchers found significant gender-specific differences with regard to the course of the disease
.
According to the meta-analysis, men have an almost three times higher risk of being transferred to an intensive care unit due to a severe corona course.
And the risk of dying from Covid-19 was also higher for men than for women (1.39 times higher).
Men are more likely to get seriously ill with Covid-19: gender-specific immune response as the cause?
"These data suggest that fundamental differences in the immune response of men and women are probably a driving factor behind the significant gender bias of the Covid-19 pandemic," the Hersfelder Zeitung quotes the researchers, who go on to explain: "
Sexual differences in the Immune system could be responsible for the female advantage in Covid-19, as studies have already shown
. "
For example, British researchers at King's College London have come to the conclusion in a study that the female sex hormone estrogen offers a certain protection against severe corona courses.
After analyzing data from more than 500,000 British
women of
different ages, the scientists came to the conclusion:
The falling estrogen level in middle-aged women means that the Covid 19 symptoms are much more severe in the course of the disease than in other patients.
A main cause is less estrogen in the body - a sex hormone that, among other things, regulates the menstrual cycle.
(jg) * Merkur.de and Hersfelder-Zeitung.de belong to the Germany-wide Ippen digital editorial network
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