Women Seem to Have Better COVID-19 Outcomes Than Men. Here’s a Theory Why
links estrogen levels to women’s likelihood of dying after they contract COVID-19. In the study, researchers looked at Swedish national health registry data from more than 16,000 women, ages 50 to 80, who had tested positive for COVID-19 between Feb. 4 and Sept. 14 of 2020.
After researchers factored in the women’s comorbidities, age, and socio-economic factors, they found that women who were taking medications that raised estrogen levels were about half as likely to die from COVID-19 as women who weren’t taking medications that affect estrogen. that have also linked high estrogen levels to a lower risk of becoming seriously ill from COVID-19, says Dr. Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, director of the Sex-Based Medicine Laboratory at Tulane University .
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