%0 Journal Article
%A Josa-Laorden, Claudia
%A Crestelo-Vieitez, Anxela
%A García Andreu, María Del Mar
%A Rubio-Rivas, Manuel
%A Sánchez, Marcos
%A Toledo Samaniego, Neera
%A Arnalich Fernández, Francisco
%A Iguaran Bermudez, Rosario
%A Fonseca Aizpuru, Eva Ma
%A Vargas Núñez, Juan Antonio
%A Pesqueira Fontan, Paula Maria
%A Serrano Ballesteros, Jorge
%A Freire Castro, Santiago Jesús
%A Pestaña Fernández, Melani
%A Viana García, Alba
%A Nuñez Rodriguez, Victoria
%A Giner-Galvañ, Vicente
%A Carrasco Sánchez, Francisco Javier
%A Hernández Milián, Almudena
%A Cobos-Siles, Marta
%A Napal Lecumberri, Jose Javier
%A Herrero García, Virginia
%A Pascual Pérez, Maria de Los Reyes
%A Millán Núñez-Cortés, Jesús
%A Casas Rojo, José Manuel
%A On Behalf Of The Semi-Covid-Network,
%T Gender-Based Differences by Age Range in Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19: A Spanish Observational Cohort Study.
%D 2021
%@ 2077-0383
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/17283
%X There is some evidence that male gender could have a negative impact on the prognosis and severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The aim of the present study was to compare the characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) between hospitalized men and women with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. This multicenter, retrospective, observational study is based on the SEMI-COVID-19 Registry. We analyzed the differences between men and women for a wide variety of demographic, clinical, and treatment variables, and the sex distribution of the reported COVID-19 deaths, as well as intensive care unit (ICU) admission by age subgroups. This work analyzed 12,063 patients (56.8% men). The women in our study were older than the men, on average (67.9 vs. 65.7 years; p
%K COVID-19
%K SARS-CoV-2
%K Spain
%K coronavirus
%K gender differences
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