Mortality by COVID-19 is higher in men than in women. Among the advocated reasons are a different exposure to risk factors such as smoking, reduced care of men about their health or different association with other morbidities. Nevertheless, a different expression of ACE2 may explain the different mortality between sexes.A potential protective role of estrogen is discussed
Can estrogens protect against COVID-19 the COVID-19 puzzling and gender medicine
BONACCORSI G.
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Conceptualization
;GEMMATI D.Ultimo
Writing – Review & Editing
2020
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Mortality by COVID-19 is higher in men than in women. Among the advocated reasons are a different exposure to risk factors such as smoking, reduced care of men about their health or different association with other morbidities. Nevertheless, a different expression of ACE2 may explain the different mortality between sexes.A potential protective role of estrogen is discussedFile in questo prodotto:
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