Inflammation linked to higher death risk, could shed light on COVID in menA large study of German patients presented online at this week's European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Conference on Coronavirus Disease found that men have a 62% higher risk of death from COVID-19, possibly due to higher levels of inflammation.The retrospective study followed 3,129 hospitalized adults from March through July in the LEOSS registry, an open-access database of clinical COVID-19 information established by the German Society of Infectious Diseases (DGI).
Patient demographics and comorbidities were evaluated using the Charlson Comorbidity Index, which reflects the number of pre-existing conditions.The researchers