LONDON: Men's blood has higher levels than women's of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells, the results of a big European ...
LONDON: Men's blood has higher levels than women's of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells, the results of a big European study showed on Monday - a finding which may help explain why men are more vulnerable to infection with COVID-19.
"Our findings do not support the discontinuation of these drugs in COVID-19 patients," said Adriaan Voors, a professor of cardiology at the University Medical Center Groningen in The Netherlands, who co-led the study.The COVID-19 pandemic has infected more than 4 million people worldwide and killed almost 277,000, according to a Reuters tally.
The study had started before the coronavirus pandemic, the researchers said, and so did not include patients with COVID-19. "When we found that one of the strongest biomarkers, ACE2, was much higher in men than in women, I realised that this had the potential to explain why men were more likely to die from COVID-19 than women," said Iziah Sama, a doctor at UMC Groningen who co-led the study.
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