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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: 3, Funny) by barbara hudson on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:47PM (9 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:47PM (#1044983) Journal
    Trump has been taking the same testosterone blocker that male-to-female transsexuals take before surgery to lower their natural testosterone. He takes it to try to slow down his male pattern baldness. Consequences include weight gain and speaking in a sing-song voice when giving speeches.
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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:44PM (6 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:44PM (#1044994) Journal

    Consequences include . . . speaking in a sing-song voice when giving speeches.

    Are you serious?

    I thought much of his speaking and pronunciation difficulties (yo! semite!) were due to his illiteracy.

    I remember a video of him reading something around 2016 election time, he read slowly, stumbling over some words, and you could see the "ah ha" moments on his face as he grasped what he was reading.

    When speaking he uses more words with fewer syllables, even if there are more concise ways to express an idea.

    Is it really possible that Trump would be so vane as to take a testosterone blocker to prevent baldness? Wait. Don't answer that.

    Grow old gracefully with dignity. I still have some of my hair. Baldness or signs of age can also be signs of wisdom, or signs of programming in Java.

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 01 2020, @06:47PM (2 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 01 2020, @06:47PM (#1045015) Journal

      A man would have to be very vein to be afraid of pattern baldness. Or they would have to be trying to attract a much younger women.

      That would explain the orange makeup, blond hair, racoon eyes, and shoe lifts. What about a girdle to keep the abdomen from bulging out too much?

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      • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday September 01 2020, @07:20PM (1 child)

        by captain normal (2205) on Tuesday September 01 2020, @07:20PM (#1045041)

        I think you meant vain.

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        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 01 2020, @08:49PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 01 2020, @08:49PM (#1045082) Journal

          <no-sarcasm>
          Two posts higher I said

          Is it really possible that Trump would be so vane as to . . .

          Words with 3 homonyms are fun.

          Caulks Cocks Cox
          Censer Censor Sensor
          Chorale Coral Corral
          Clawed Claud Claude
          Concord Concurred Conquered
          Decent Descent Dissent
          Dense Dents Dints
          Dew Do Due
          Flew Flu Flue
          Gem Gym Jim
          Gen Gin Jen
          Hays Haze Hey's
          Heal Heel He'll
          Heard Herd Hurd
          Hem Him Hymn
          Holey Holy Wholly
          Knead Kneed Need
          Kneel Neal Neil
          Knight Night Nite
          Knot Naught Not
          Lager Lauger Logger
          Liar Lier (as in outlier) Lyre
          Main Maine Mane
          Maize Mays Maze
          Mall Maul Moll
          Mary Marry Merry
          Meat Meet Mete
          Micks Mick's Mix
          Palate (roof of mouth, appreciation of taste), Palette (painting, color board), Pallet (straw mattress)
          Pedal Peddle Petal
          Poored Pored Poured
          Prays Praise Preys
          Rose (flower) Rose (did rise) Rows
          Seas Sees Seize
          Seoul Sole Soul
          Sew So Sow
          Steal Steel Still
          Taught Taut Tot
          Tease Tees T's
          Tends Tens Tins
          Their There They're
          Threw Through Thru
          To Too Two
          Toad Toed Towed (three-toed sloth, cars will be towed)
          Vain Vane Vein
          Wails Wales Whales
          Way Weigh Whey
          We'll Wheel Will
          Your You're Yore

          Even more funner are words with 4 homonyms.

          Cents Scents Sense Since
          Right (direction, is correct, something not subject to a vote) Rite Wright Write
          Ware Wear (clothing) Wear (diminished by use) We're Where

          But the most funnest of all are words with 5 homonyms.

          Macs Mac's Macks Maks Max

          Maybe I'll have to post my complete list one day. I didn't collect these overnight you know.
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    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Tuesday September 01 2020, @08:01PM (2 children)

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday September 01 2020, @08:01PM (#1045064) Journal
      I was joking about the voice, but not the hair. It's been known for decades that he's not all that smart, having a hard time reading off a TelePrompTer, like he's got dementia. Given the revelation that Penske was on standby to temporarily take over if Trump had to be anestestized during his unscheduled last visit to the hospital, his trouble walking down a ramp or holding a water bottle with one hand, a series of mini strokes or vascular dementia is looking really good.
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      • (Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Tuesday September 01 2020, @08:56PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 01 2020, @08:56PM (#1045085) Journal

        reading off a TelePrompTer, like he's got dementia

        That. Or illiteracy, which is very likely based on oral speech. Or both.

        Two major defects for the price of one. We should be happy.

        Trump had to be anestestized during his unscheduled last visit to the hospital

        Stroke or mini / many strokes explain that.

        Another symptom is 'right side weakness'. Hence the dropping of his right face. Inability to lift drinking cup with right arm, unassisted by left arm. Inability for right leg to walk down a ramp.

        The face dropping on the right would explain him SUDDENLY wearing a mask in public. Previously he wouldn't wear a mask because it would mess up his orange clown makeup. But more importantly is to hide from the public that his right face is melting drooping.

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      • (Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Tuesday September 01 2020, @10:39PM

        by VLM (445) on Tuesday September 01 2020, @10:39PM (#1045136)

        This is the typical leftist stuff where if they're bad and know it, so they claim its ACTUALLY the other guys.

        So yeah, everyone knows Biden is basically a semi-animated vegetable, so its supposed to impress voters when there's claims its ACTUALLY Trump who's the vegetable, but nobody falls for it, LOL.

        On a personal level its sad seeing some elderly disabled dude being used "weekend at bernies" style ironically to keep actual real world Bernie out of his parties nominations. They should have just let Biden retire into a nice old folks home in peace, go run Hillary again, LOL.

        Didn't work last election either. Remember how many underage girls Bill Clinton raped making it look bad for Hillary? So uh, yeah, uh Trump did that all the time, huh huh yeah thats it, as if anyone believes that kind of stuff. Ironically I guess Biden was in fact a rapist but having no more memory due to extreme age it seems unfair to punish a guy for raping a girl he can't remember anymore, so nobody's hassling him about it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @11:21AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @11:21AM (#1045323)

    Trump has been taking the same testosterone blocker ....

    https://deadline.com/2016/09/donald-trump-testosterone-level-applause-dr-oz-show-1201820359/ [deadline.com]

    I'm first to shit on that idiot but in this case, but your comment is BS. He's a geriatric senile Nazi but making shit up is just weird.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Wednesday September 02 2020, @01:57PM

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Wednesday September 02 2020, @01:57PM (#1045365) Journal

      Dr Oz is a quack. He was called to testify as to why he pushes medical claims he knows aren't true. His response was that it's opinion.

      You know it's bs when he uses freedom of speech to defend knowingly lying.

      The alumni at his former university wanted them to pull his degree, he's so disgraceful.

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