News Scan for Sep 24, 2020 | CIDRAP – CIDRAP

Inflammation linked to higher death risk, could shed light on COVID in men
A large study of German patients presented online at this week’s European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Conference on Coronavirus Disease found that men have a 62% higher risk of death from COVID-19, possibly due to higher levels of inflammation.
The retrospective study followed 3,129 hospitalized adults from March through July in the LEOSS registry, an open-access database of clinica…

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