Gender Competition for Surviving COVID-19 | ||||
| Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases | ||||
| Article 11, Volume 10, Issue 4, December 2020, Page 417-418 PDF (273.22 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Letter to the editor | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/aeji.2020.43626.1102 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Hamzullah khan   1; Shahtaj khan2
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| 1Associate Professor, Nowshera Medical College, Nowshera, Pakistan | ||||
| 2Professor & HOD Hematology Department, Hayatabad medical complex Peshawar, Pakistan | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Covid-19; Gender differences; survival; Mortality | ||||
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