How Cumulative Statistics Can Mislead: The Temporal Dynamism of Sex Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality in New York State

Overall, men have died from COVID-19 at slightly higher rates than women. But cumulative estimates of mortality by sex may be misleading. We analyze New York State COVID-19 mortality by sex between March 2020 and August 2021, demonstrating that 72.7% of the total difference in the number of COVID-19...

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Autores principales: Danielsen, Ann Caroline, Boulicault, Marion, Gompers, Annika, Rushovich, Tamara, Lee, Katharine M. N., Richardson, Sarah S.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9658081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36360943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114066
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author Danielsen, Ann Caroline
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description Overall, men have died from COVID-19 at slightly higher rates than women. But cumulative estimates of mortality by sex may be misleading. We analyze New York State COVID-19 mortality by sex between March 2020 and August 2021, demonstrating that 72.7% of the total difference in the number of COVID-19 deaths between women and men was accrued in the first seven weeks of the pandemic. Thus, while the initial surge in COVID-19 mortality was characterized by stark sex disparities, this article shows that disparities were greatly attenuated in subsequent phases of the pandemic. Investigating changes over time could help illuminate how contextual factors contributed to the development of apparent sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-96580812022-11-15 How Cumulative Statistics Can Mislead: The Temporal Dynamism of Sex Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality in New York State Danielsen, Ann Caroline Boulicault, Marion Gompers, Annika Rushovich, Tamara Lee, Katharine M. N. Richardson, Sarah S. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Overall, men have died from COVID-19 at slightly higher rates than women. But cumulative estimates of mortality by sex may be misleading. We analyze New York State COVID-19 mortality by sex between March 2020 and August 2021, demonstrating that 72.7% of the total difference in the number of COVID-19 deaths between women and men was accrued in the first seven weeks of the pandemic. Thus, while the initial surge in COVID-19 mortality was characterized by stark sex disparities, this article shows that disparities were greatly attenuated in subsequent phases of the pandemic. Investigating changes over time could help illuminate how contextual factors contributed to the development of apparent sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes. MDPI 2022-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9658081/ /pubmed/36360943 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114066 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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