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Gender Competition for Surviving COVID-19

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Infectious diseases

Abstract

Corona Virus disease termed as COVID-19, is an emerging highly contagious respiratory disease that is caused by novel corona virus. Its main clinical symptoms are fever, dry cough, fatigue, myalgia and dyspnea.
In Pakistan, the literature so far covering the prevalence and incidence is deficient. By24thJuly 2020, reported data from government sources declares 270,400 confirmed cases with 5763 deaths. 219783 cases are recovered  and 1316 cases are under treatment in high dependency units countrywide.  Sindh is the province with highest number of corona cases crossing 115883.  Gender and age matters when there is talk about the prognosis and outcome of the disease. A study reported that corona virus is striking and felling more Italian males as compared to females in extreme of age because of their weak immunity status. They further elaborated that Italian model of mortality is a trend mirror of what they observed in China with more causality in male gender and at extreme age.
Using the Kaplan Meir test we analyzed the 32 deceased data from our hospital named Qazi Hussain Ahmed Medical Complex Nowshera and district line list for a number of variables including the impact of gender and comparing the survival capabilities of both genders simultaneously infected with COVID-19.
We observed that male gender that have contracted COVID-19 in their extreme ages offering less resistance to the virus with poor survival rate as compared to the female's gender where the surviving capabilities for unknown reasons are stronger than those in male gender (Figure 1). Many factors can contribute including low viral load because of less exposure as compared to the male gender in our religious society. Similarly, there could be some un-discovered immune predominance in female gender that confers more imm

DOI

10.21608/aeji.2020.43626.1102

Keywords

COVID-19, gender differences, Survival, mortality

Authors

First Name

Hamzullah

Last Name

khan

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Affiliation

Associate Professor, Nowshera Medical College, Nowshera, Pakistan

Email

hamzakmc@gmail.com

City

nowshera

Orcid

0000-0002-8184-5691

First Name

Shahtaj

Last Name

khan

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Professor & HOD Hematology Department, Hayatabad medical complex Peshawar, Pakistan

Email

shahtajkhan@gmail.com

City

peshawar

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Volume

10

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

18970

Issue Date

2020-12-01

Receive Date

2020-09-21

Publish Date

2020-12-01

Page Start

417

Page End

418

Print ISSN

2090-7613

Online ISSN

2090-7184

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https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/article_123685.html

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https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=123685

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11

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Letter to the editor

Type Code

621

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases

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https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023