Assessing sex differential in COVID-19 mortality rate by age and polymerase chain reaction test results: an Iranian multi-center study.
Mehdi Azizmohammad LoohaMostafa Rezaei-TaviraniMohammad Rostami-NejadShahriar JanbaziElaheh ZareanPayam AminiFatemeh MasaebiMaryam KazemiAmir Vahedian-AzimiGolshan MirmomeniTannaz JamialahmadiPaul C GuestAmirhossein SahebkarMohamad Amin PourhoseingholiPublished in: Expert review of anti-infective therapy (2021)
Regardless of other risk factors, we found that the effect of sex on COVID-19 mortality varied significantly in different age groups. Therefore, appropriate strategies should be designed to protect adult and senior males from this deadly infectious disease. Furthermore, owing to the considerable death rate of COVID-19 patients with negative test results, new policies should be launched to increase the accuracy of diagnosis tests.