Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response

Re:Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response by microcolonel on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:11PM (#24333557)

BMI isn't exactly comparable between the sexes, since males and females have different distributions of adipose and visceral fat, and the impacts of these are clearly different.

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Re:Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response by rsynnott on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:38PM (#24333892)

And that could maybe contribute to something. There were other studies, though, which didn't take BMI into account at all, even though high BMI is a known risk factor, and generally more men are obese than women.

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Re:Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response by pkaye on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:56PM (#24334092)

I saw this study from southern California. They provide risk ratios for different factors. Seems just being male have a higher risk ratio than being overweight.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-3742#f1-M203742

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Re:Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response by timr on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:20PM (#24333660)

Those kinds of effects would presumably count as "gender-specific differences". Previous investigations never really took body mass into account at all, which was...bad.

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