The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak Highlights the Importance of Sex-sensitive Medicine

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed important differences between the sexes in epidemiology, risk factors, clinical course, mortality and socioeconomic dimensions of the disease in all populations worldwide. This has emphasised the need for a better understanding of d...

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Autores principales: Maas, Angela HEM, Oertelt-Prigione, Sabine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Radcliffe Cardiology 2020
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Covid-19
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7479529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32944091
http://dx.doi.org/10.15420/ecr.2020.28
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description The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed important differences between the sexes in epidemiology, risk factors, clinical course, mortality and socioeconomic dimensions of the disease in all populations worldwide. This has emphasised the need for a better understanding of diversity aspects in healthcare to improve prevention, treatment and long-term consequences. In this article, the authors describe the most relevant knowledge thus far on sex differences regarding COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-74795292020-09-16 The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak Highlights the Importance of Sex-sensitive Medicine Maas, Angela HEM Oertelt-Prigione, Sabine Eur Cardiol Covid-19 The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed important differences between the sexes in epidemiology, risk factors, clinical course, mortality and socioeconomic dimensions of the disease in all populations worldwide. This has emphasised the need for a better understanding of diversity aspects in healthcare to improve prevention, treatment and long-term consequences. In this article, the authors describe the most relevant knowledge thus far on sex differences regarding COVID-19. Radcliffe Cardiology 2020-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7479529/ /pubmed/32944091 http://dx.doi.org/10.15420/ecr.2020.28 Text en Copyright © 2020, Radcliffe Cardiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode This work is open access under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 License which allows users to copy, redistribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is cited correctly.
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