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Gender susceptibility to COVID-19: a review of the putative role of sex hormones and X chromosome

BACKGROUND: The recent emergence of COVID-19 poses a global health emergency. One of the most frequently reported data is sex-related severity and mortality: according to the last available analysis on 239,709 patients in Italy, lethality is 17.7% in men and 10.8% in women, with 59% of total deaths...

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Published in:J Endocrinol Invest
Main Authors: Foresta, C., Rocca, M. S., Di Nisio, A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer International Publishing 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7492232/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32936429
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40618-020-01383-6
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