Stay Healthy:COVID Hitting Men Harder

 

Do you call this enmity or favouritism? Whatever it termed, researches found that COVID 19 is hitting men harder compared to women despite the chance of infection are equal among both genders. Unfortunately, serious complications and dead troll are high among the male population. The Chinese researchers mentioned that in one large subset of COVID 19 patients,70 percents who dies was men. Similar results were found when examined the research from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS) back in 2003. In addition, The World Health Organization(WHO) has reported 63 percents of COVID 19 death in Europe are men. There are more reports coming to explain the catastrophic numbers to describe men as the most vulnerable people affected by this deadly virus. Is COVID 19 really favouring the women?Some possible underlying reasons studied are:

• chronic illness such as heart disease, hypertension & liver disease which appear as the risk factor for COVID 19 complications are much common in men compared to women

• Angiotensin-converting enzyme2(ACE2) is an enzyme which is found higher in male, which makes them susceptible to this virus
• women have a stronger immune response compared to men
• smoking is largely a male habit which results in chronic lung disease, in turn, huge complications when infected with COVID 19
• some studies even suggested that female hormones such as estrogen and progesterone appear in hand to protect women from the COVID 19 complications.

However, this does not mean that women can skip precautions and taking the effects of the illness easily. It is a responsibility for each individual regardless of gender to safeguard their health and people around them. Any compromise imposed on this requirement would severely affect the well being of everyone involved.