MEN with low testosterone levels are more likely to die of coronavirus, a study has found. Figures have shown that men are twice as likely as women to die from the disease but experts have been una…
MEN with low testosterone levels are more likely to die of coronavirus, a study has found.
Testosterone is key in how the male body regulates various immune responses, such as fighting viral infections, but women produce small amounts in their ovaries. Samples were taken from each patient and tested for 12 hormones, including testosterone and dihydrotestosterone. Professor Gülsah Gabriel, from the Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology in Hamburg, who was involved in the research, told"Of those male Covid-19 patients who died, the majority also had low testosterone levels.
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