Doctors may have found out why coronavirus kills more men than women

[Chris Smith]

• Coronavirus deaths are disproportionate when it comes to sex, with men being more likely to develop life-threatening COVID-19 complications than women of the same age.
• A variety of studies have attempted to explain why women fare better than men, but new research might give us the real reason why men are more likely to die.
• A study says that men do not mount an immune response as strong as women, and older men have even weaker immune systems.

It was clear from the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic that men are in for a tougher challenge than women when it comes to surviving the illness. Older men are at higher risk of death than women of the same age, doctors discovered, with some studies attempting to explain why this is the case.

Some blamed the riskier lifestyle of men. Other scientists said that men have more ACE2 receptors than women as that those key components are found inside testicles as well. The coronavirus binds to ACE2 receptors to infect cells. A different study suggested that a type of cancer treatment might actually protect men from COVID-19. Separately, a study looking at obesity concluded that overweight men younger than 60 are more likely to die of COVID-19 complications.

The newest study looking at the way the virus affects the two sexes may offer the real reason why men are more likely to die of COVID-19 than women of the same age.

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