Sex differences in a cohort of COVID-19 Italian patients hospitalized during the first and second pandemic waves.

Biol Sex Differ · 2021 · PMC8355575 · PMID 34380555

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0.0040

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highly significantP = 0.004actually significant

However, despite the influence of age and waves on hospitalization length, the model having sex as predictor still remained highly significant ( P = 0.004, HR = 1.232, CI = 1.071–1.418).

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a trend toward significanceP = 0.056so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Kaplan-Meier survival curve also revealed a trend toward significance for a possible impact of sex on disease duration, suggesting a longer disease duration in males (30.1 ± 1.4 days) than in females (26.7 ± 1.3 days; log rank P = 0.056).

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