The Influence of Sex, Gender, and Age on COVID-19 Data in the Piedmont Region (Northwest Italy): The Virus Prefers Men. in Life (Basel, Switzerland) / Life (Basel). 2022 Apr 26;12(5):643. doi: 10.3390/life12050643.
2022
ASL Città di Torino
ASL Torino 4
AOU San Luigi di Orbassano
Tipo pubblicazione
Journal Article
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Durio A
Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis", University of Turin, 10153 Turin, Italy.
Ghisetti V
Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology ASL Turin, 10149 Turin, Italy.
Burdino E
Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology ASL Turin, 10149 Turin, Italy.
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Abstract
Several important sex and gender differences in the clinical manifestation of diseases have been known for a long time but are still underestimated. The infectious Coronavirus 2019 disease pandemic has provided evidence of the importance of a sex and gender-based approach; it mainly affected men with worse symptomatology due to a different immune system, which is stronger in women, and to the Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 and Transmembrane protease serine 2 roles which are differently expressed among the sexes. Additionally, women are more inclined to maintain social distance and smoke less. Analysis of data on the infectious Coronavirus 2019 disease testing from people admitted to the Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, a regional referral center for infectious diseases, has been applied to the whole of 2020 data (254,640 records). A high percentage of data in the dataset was not suitable due to a lack of information or entering errors. Among the suitable samples, records have been analyzed for positive/negative outcomes, matching records for unique subjects (N = 123,542), to evaluate individual recurrence of testing. Data are presented in age and sex-disaggregated ways. Analyses of the suitable sample also concerned the relation between testing and hospital admission motivation and symptoms. Our analysis indicated that a sex and gender-based approach is mandatory for patients and the National Health System's sustainability.
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PMID : 35629311
DOI : 10.3390/life12050643
Keywords
tailored approach; sex; gender; differences; Coronavirus infectious disease 2019;