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Editor, Senior Moderator
Maturitas
. 2020 Nov;141:59-62.
doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.06.017. Epub 2020 Jun 23.
Coronavirus disease 2019 and gender-related mortality in European countries: A meta-analysis
Faustino R P?rez-L?pez[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mauricio Tajada[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ricardo Savir?n-Cornudella[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Manuel S?nchez-Prieto[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Peter Chedraui[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Enrique Ter?n[SUP] 6 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Objective: To examine mortality rates related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by gender among European countries.
Methods: PubMed, preprint medRxiv and bioRxiv repositories, and Google were searched for the terms COVID-19, mortality rates, gender, and Europe. Only Google provided a website with appropriate information. COVID-19 cases and deaths from European countries were extracted by gender from the Global Health 50/50 repository up to May 23, 2020. Extracted data included country, the total number of COVID-19 cases and the number of related deaths by gender. Random effects models with the inverse variance method were used for meta-analyses. Results are reported as death risk ratios (RRs).
Results: We identified information from 23 European countries that reported separately by gender mortality rates related to COVID-19. The sample comprised 484,919 men and 605,229 women positive for COVID-19. The mortality rate was significantly higher in men than in women (risk ratio = 1.60, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 1.53, 1.68). The trend was similar when countries reporting < 5000, or < 10,000 cases were excluded from the analysis (RR = 1.60, 95 % CI 1.52, 1.69 and RR = 1.68; CI 1.62, 1.76, respectively).
Conclusion: In Europe, the new zoonotic coronavirus causes significantly more deaths in men than in women.
Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus 2019; Fatalities; Gender; Global health 50/5
. 2020 Nov;141:59-62.
doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.06.017. Epub 2020 Jun 23.
Coronavirus disease 2019 and gender-related mortality in European countries: A meta-analysis
Faustino R P?rez-L?pez[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mauricio Tajada[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ricardo Savir?n-Cornudella[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Manuel S?nchez-Prieto[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Peter Chedraui[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Enrique Ter?n[SUP] 6 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33036704
- DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.06.017
Abstract
Objective: To examine mortality rates related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by gender among European countries.
Methods: PubMed, preprint medRxiv and bioRxiv repositories, and Google were searched for the terms COVID-19, mortality rates, gender, and Europe. Only Google provided a website with appropriate information. COVID-19 cases and deaths from European countries were extracted by gender from the Global Health 50/50 repository up to May 23, 2020. Extracted data included country, the total number of COVID-19 cases and the number of related deaths by gender. Random effects models with the inverse variance method were used for meta-analyses. Results are reported as death risk ratios (RRs).
Results: We identified information from 23 European countries that reported separately by gender mortality rates related to COVID-19. The sample comprised 484,919 men and 605,229 women positive for COVID-19. The mortality rate was significantly higher in men than in women (risk ratio = 1.60, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 1.53, 1.68). The trend was similar when countries reporting < 5000, or < 10,000 cases were excluded from the analysis (RR = 1.60, 95 % CI 1.52, 1.69 and RR = 1.68; CI 1.62, 1.76, respectively).
Conclusion: In Europe, the new zoonotic coronavirus causes significantly more deaths in men than in women.
Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus 2019; Fatalities; Gender; Global health 50/5