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Impact of gender on patients hospitalized for SARS‐COV‐2 infection: A prospective observational study
- Source :
- Journal of Medical Virology
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2021.
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Abstract
- 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
- Subjects :
- Male
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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10969071 and 01466615
- Volume :
- 93
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Medical Virology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d94032d9af6b6ce7c0f99239a76492c4