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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 01 2020, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly

Estrogen may lessen severity of COVID-19 symptoms in women, study finds:

There is growing evidence that Covid-19 poses greater risks for men than women1. Wake Forest School of Medicine has published a review of preclinical data that may indicate a protective effect related to estrogen.

Why are men at greater risk than women for more severe symptoms and worse outcomes from COVID-19 regardless of age?

In an effort to understand why this occurs, scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine conducted a review of published preclinical data on sex-specific hormone activity, especially estrogen. The review is published in the September online issue of the journal Current Hypertension Reports.

"We know that coronavirus affects the heart and we know that estrogen is protective against cardiovascular disease in women, so the most likely explanation seemed to be hormonal differences between the sexes," said the lead author of the review, Leanne Groban, M.D., professor of anesthesiology at Wake Forest School of Medicine, part of Wake Forest Baptist Health.

Journal Reference:
Leanne Groban, Hao Wang, Xuming Sun, et al. Is Sex a Determinant of COVID-19 Infection? Truth or Myth? [open], Current Hypertension Reports (DOI: 10.1007/s11906-020-01073-x)

(1) See Also:
Covid Kills More Men Than Women. Experts Still Can't Explain Why
Why Covid-19 Poses Greater Risks for Men Than Women
Why Does the Coronavirus Hit Men Harder? A New Clue


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  • (Score: -1, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Tuesday September 01 2020, @02:44PM (20 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday September 01 2020, @02:44PM (#1044930) Journal

    Even after menopause it takes about a decade for the long term effects of estrogen to disappear.

    One Ontario hospital was basically full of men in their 30s to 50s - all with advanced male pattern baldness. They even mentioned it on a tv documentary. Too much testosterone.

    So all the misogynists, trans-haters, incels, and MGTOW, guess who's laughing now?

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:27PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:27PM (#1044944)

    They're still laughing because it's still a pretty small portion of the population. Women remain spoiled brats and that will continue. Rather than actually building things you continue to tear them down because men created them.

    The reality here is that people like you created those groups. Somehow when it's women demanding things that they haven't earned or helped create there's no problem, but when it's men noticed how badly we're getting screwed somehow we're all misogynists and incels, not people that are smart enough to see what's going on and notice that we're being left behind.

    • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:28PM (#1044975)
      Poor delicate victim! Don't they realize you are a delicate victim? Why can't they see that???
    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:43PM (3 children)

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:43PM (#1044982) Journal

      Me: To all the misogynists
      Anonymous Coward: we're still laughing because it's still a pretty small portion of the population.

      Women are the majority of the population.

      Anonymous Coward: "blah blah blah" (typical misogynistic rant proving my point)

      Me: Do you now see why women won't sleep with misogynists, trans-haters, incels, and MGTOG?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @07:09PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @07:09PM (#1045031)

        Me: Do you now see why women won't sleep with misogynists, trans-haters, incels, and MGTOG?

        Citation needed. If women wouldn't sleep with misogynists, that trait would have died out long ago.

        • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Tuesday September 01 2020, @07:38PM (1 child)

          by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday September 01 2020, @07:38PM (#1045050) Journal
          It's (misogyny) not a heritable trait. But it certainly helps explain lesbians.
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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:00PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:00PM (#1046027)

            Traits associated with misogyny are very likely to be genetic though. Possessiveness and jealousy, violent response to perceived infidelity, and patterns of infidelity are all believed to be heritable.

    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 01 2020, @06:28PM (4 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 01 2020, @06:28PM (#1045006) Journal

      Have you noticed it's not the rich or even comfortably well-off men getting left behind, but normal and poor men?

      Here's a clue: it's the rich who are fucking you over. You have more in common with even a poor black Jewish paraplegic lesbian in a wheelchair than you do with a fellow white male who makes over $100,000 a year, and that crowd lives in constant dread of you (and the woman in the wheelchair) ever figuring that out.

      They are playing divide and conquer with you. They have you hating people you should be making common cause with for economic and social/class reasons. They're hoping that by giving you someone to look down on and spread your misery downward, you'll never stop to think about WHY your situation sucks so hard.

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      • (Score: 1) by NPC-131072 on Tuesday September 01 2020, @07:56PM (1 child)

        by NPC-131072 (7144) on Tuesday September 01 2020, @07:56PM (#1045062) Journal

        You have more in common with even a poor black Jewish paraplegic lesbian in a wheelchair than you do with a fellow white male

        Very disappointed you forgot the dwarfism. This is why my fight for social justice is ongoing!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:59AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:59AM (#1045194)

          Oh hai tweedle dee! Nice to see you survived your internal bleaching.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @09:34PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @09:34PM (#1045102)

        Oh no, now the socialists are coming for us too?! Save us Mr. President! Bring back our precious coal mining jobs? [marxists.org]

      • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @11:25PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @11:25PM (#1045153)

        You have more in common with even a poor black Jewish paraplegic lesbian in a wheelchair than you do with a fellow white male

        Only thing we have in common is that we both hate Jews.

  • (Score: 2) by bart on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:30PM (6 children)

    by bart (2844) on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:30PM (#1044946)

    Ok, English is not my native tongue, but generally I can express myself quite well, and understand everything. But I really can't be bothered to look up "incel", "trans-hater" or MGTOW. MTOW I know, but what's the G for?

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:43PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:43PM (#1044953)

      incel = virgin naaaaaaaaaazi terrorwrist
      trans-hater = more accurate than transphobe
      MGTOW = Men Going Their Own Way

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:19PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:19PM (#1044970)

      Honestly, the comment isn't worth reading. It's the same self-entitled bullshit that women and trans people circulate in order to make themselves feel better. They mostly do it because it's easier than actually achieving things. I would have achieved things excep those mean boys wouldn't do all the work for me kind of thinking.

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:35PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:35PM (#1044979)

        What have you achieved ?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:02PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:02PM (#1046028)

          Nothing that you know about, and I like it that way.

    • (Score: 2, Troll) by VLM on Tuesday September 01 2020, @10:32PM (1 child)

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 01 2020, @10:32PM (#1045134)

      I'll save you the time as they're all leftist slurs against anyone to the right of Marx and Lenin.

      I guess the right wing counterpart of those slurs is when people write their biographies or profiles, its supposed to be a list of accomplishments or achievements to brag about but leftists being leftists their profiles are usually virtue signaling a long list of mental illnesses, sexual degeneracies, and criminal acts. Like right wing biographies all read something like "after years of sweat and hard work, I overhead press 125 pounds" or earned a doctorate degree or some award or founded a profitable job providing company or whatever, whereas leftist biographies all read something like "My greatest achievement is I do stuff with other dude's butts that was considered a crime a few years ago" as if anyone is proud of that.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @07:38AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @07:38AM (#1045290)

        Marx and Lenin would have put the gays and transgenders, although maybe not the feminists in the gulag, or maybe put to death.

        So know, us Marxist/Socialist lefties wouldn't actually do that. What' you're looking for is the capitalist victim culture lefties, who prefer to make everything about them, while ignoring the common persons struggle (whether they be man, woman, or not out and proud LGBTQ).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @11:16AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @11:16AM (#1045321)

    advanced male pattern baldness. They even mentioned it on a tv documentary. Too much testosterone.

    Except these are not correlated. DHT sensitive hair does not mean "TOO MUCH TESTOSTERONE". It means your hair is sensitive to falling out because of DHT. If you lower your DHT, it may help your hair but it doesn't make your testosterone lower at all. Furthermore, testosterone is lowered as you age, but male pattern baldness is increased as you have.... hmmm....

    Anyway, making fun of someone's genes is fucking sad. No better than,

    all the misogynists, trans-haters, incels, and MGTOW, guess who's laughing now?

    I guess it's a case of victims becomes the abuser. The bullied the bully.