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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The Influence of Sex, Gender, and Age on COVID-19 Data in the Piedmont Region (Northwest Italy): The Virus Prefers Men.

Silvia De Francia, Alessandro Ferretti, Francesco Chiara, Sarah Allegra, Daniele Mancardi, Tiziano Giacomo Allice, Maria Grazia Milia, Gabriella Gregori, Elisa Burdino, Claudio Avanzini and 2 more

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors.

Silvia De FranciaDepartment of Biological and Clinical Sciences, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, 10043 Orbassano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9841-7802
Alessandro FerrettiDepartment of Physics, University of Turin, 10125 Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9084-5784
Francesco ChiaraDepartment of Biological and Clinical Sciences, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, 10043 Orbassano, Italy.
Sarah AllegraDepartment of Biological and Clinical Sciences, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, 10043 Orbassano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4933-0011
Daniele MancardiDepartment of Biological and Clinical Sciences, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, 10043 Orbassano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3809-6047
Tiziano Giacomo AlliceLaboratory of Microbiology and Virology ASL Turin, 10149 Turin, Italy.
Maria Grazia MiliaLaboratory of Microbiology and Virology ASL Turin, 10149 Turin, Italy.
Gabriella GregoriLaboratory of Microbiology and Virology ASL Turin, 10149 Turin, Italy.
Elisa BurdinoLaboratory of Microbiology and Virology ASL Turin, 10149 Turin, Italy.
Claudio AvanziniLaboratory of Microbiology and Virology ASL Turin, 10149 Turin, Italy.
Valeria GhisettiLaboratory of Microbiology and Virology ASL Turin, 10149 Turin, Italy.
Alessandra DurioDepartment of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis", University of Turin, 10153 Turin, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

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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