Why Men Leads On COVID-19 Patients

 

Study says men are most likely vulnerable to COVID-19 infection than women or according to study men have higher numbers of being COVID-19 patients than women. The bias is said to blame on male sex hormone or male testosterone.

 

If the male has lower testosterone levels, he is an easy target to COVID-19 infection and the treatment is worse than women. But the study also says, COVID-19 cause the decrease in levels of testosterone and when it decreases that is the worse it gets and leads to death among men. Thus, there are great number of male cases than female who die of COVID-19.

 

“Anew study has linked more men dying of Covid-19 globally than women to the ability of SARS-CoV-2 in depleting testosterone levels in the body. Initially the lower testosterone levels in the Covid-19 patients were associated with poor health condition, however a new study shows that it may be viral infection that is causing the level of male sex hormone to decrease,….” (News18)

“Data from around the world have since confirmed that men face a greater risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19 than women and that children are largely spared. Now, scientists investigating how the virus does its deadly work have zeroed in on a possible reason: Androgens—male hormones such as testosterone—appear to boost the virus’ ability to get inside cells.” (Science Mag)

“Epidemiological data from around the world have confirmed the early reports of male vulnerability. In Lombardy in Italy, for example, men comprised 82% of 1591 patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) from 20 February to 18 March, according to a JAMA paper. And male mortality exceeded that of women in every adult age group in another JAMA study of 5700 New York City patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Now, researchers are on the trail of a mechanism for this male bias—an effort led by prostate cancer researchers, who have a deep acquaintance with androgens.” (Science Mag)

Testosterone according to the study is linked to respiratory illness and low levels of it can cause respiratory infection .COVID-19 is a respiratory illness thus men is more vulnerable.

““Testosterone is associated with the immune system of respiratory organs, and low levels of testosterone might increase the risk of respiratory infections,” says Selahittin Çayan, professor of urology, who contributed to the study.” (News Yahoo)

“"Testosterone is associated with the immune system of respiratory organs, and low levels of testosterone might increase the risk of respiratory infections. Low testosterone is also associated with infection-related hospitalisation and all-cause mortality in male in ICU patients, so testosterone treatment may also have benefits beyond improving outcomes for COVID-19," Professor Çayan explains.” (Science Daily)

If the levels are high why it causes the sickness if lower levels cause the sickness and how COVID-19 can deplete the levels anyway if it is high? Perhaps, the levels are already low and from that low levels the COVID-19 enters or could enter and wreak havoc

The main point : According to study men leads of COVID-19 patients than women and that point to their sex hormone of testosterone levels.