Covid-19 appears to strike men, overweight people harder

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NSTworld: Medical staff are seeing a greater number of men than women suffering severe symptoms of COVID19, with obesity emerging as another potentially aggravating factor. coronavirus KKMPutrajaya DGHisham

What first began to appear as a pattern in China, where the virus emerged at the end of last year, has echoed through hospitals in Europe and the United States as the pandemic spreads.

According to preliminary data of outcomes for those patients who had either recovered or died of COVID-19 in the period before April 3, obese patients were also less likely to recover after receiving critical care. “I’m in the emergency room, and it’s remarkable – I’d estimate that 80 percent of the patients being brought in are men,” Hani Sbitany, a reconstructive surgeon at Mount Sinai Health System who has been treating COVID-19 patients in Brooklyn.But why are so many men affected? Just months after the new coronavirus appeared, experts say it is too early to tell for certain.

“I am very humble vis-a-vis this virus. I did not know it three and a half months ago. There are lots of question marks,” he told France Info radio. James Gill, a locum doctor and honorary clinical lecturer at Warwick Medical School, said one idea was that women “may have a more aggressive immune system, meaning a greater resilience to infections.”

 

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