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Male patients with low testosterone levels are MORE likely to die from COVID19
- sebastianconcpt 6y agoThe researchers assessed the first 45 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Thirty-five were men and ten were women, with seven patients requiring oxygen and 33 of them needing ventilation. Nine men and three women died. Hormone levels of each patient were assessed on their first day in ICU, before they had received any invasive procedures. Samples from the COVID-19 patients were tested for 12 hormones, including testosterone and dihydrotestosterone
- fortran77 6y agoI wonder if it's actually related to the most cited co-morbid factor for COVID-19: See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955331/