Toronto, Oct 4 (IANS) XY chromosomes may be the reason that globally males were more likely than females to be hospitalised or admitted to the ICU or to die from Covid-19 despite having similar infection rates, finds a study. The pre-clinical research, published in the journal iScience, has yet to be replicated in humans, but points to the ACE2 protein as a key contributor to differences in Covid-19 outcomes between males and females. “Covid-19 severity and mortality are much higher in males than in females, but the reasons for this remain poorly understood,” said Haibo Zhang, a staff scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital, and a Professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine, and physiology a
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