Men more likely than women to develop COVID-19 pneumonia, research suggests
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 A study of sex-based differences in the risk of COVID-19 pneumonia finds that men were more likely to develop the complication than women (12.0% vs 7.0%) during the declared pandemic period and the early months of the endemic phase of the disease in Mexico. Published in Scientific Reports, the study is based on national COVID-19 epidemiologic surveillance data on more than 1.6 million adult COVID-19 patients analyzed by Instituto Mexicano
