Men have a higher risk of death than women if they contract the new strain of coronavirus, Chinese researchers have concluded in the largest study on the outbreak to date.
The new strain of coronavirus sweeping across China has been more fatal in men than women, a new study claimed on Monday.
In research published Monday analysts studied 72,314 patient records from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention . The CCDC data also suggested that fatality rates were higher among men than women. Officials recorded a 2.8% fatality rate for male patients, whereas 1.7% of cases in women resulted in death.
Case fatality rate increased with age, with 14.8% of cases in people over the age of 80 resulting in death. Patients between the ages of 70 and 79 had an 8% fatality rate, while those aged 60 to 69 had a fatality rate of 3.6%.
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