Sex Differences in COVID-19 Hospitalization and Mortality
Joanne Michelle D. Gomez, Jeanne du Fay de Lavallaz, Setri Fugar, Alexandra Sarau, J. Alan Simmons, Brian Clark, Rupa Sanghani, Neelum T. Aggarwal, Kim A. Williams, Rami Doukky, Annabelle Santos Volgman
Abstract
Male sex was independently associated with death, hospitalization, ICU admissions, and need for vasopressors or endotracheal intubation, after correction for important covariates.
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