“A study led by Dr Claire Steves and Professor Tim Spector at King’s College London analyzed data from 4,182 COVID Symptom Study users who tested positive for coronavirus,” the paper writes. The Guardian.
Experts concluded that women were twice as likely as men to have the symptoms of Covid-19 for more than a month. However, only at the age of sixty, then the level of risk is the same for both sexes.
Experts associate increasing age with the risk of long-term coronavirus. While 22% of people over the age of 70 struggled with problems for about four or more weeks, people aged 18 to 49 with longer-term symptoms were only 10%.
However, for women between the ages of fifty and sixty, according to experts, both risk factors came together. Compared to people aged 18 to 30, women were eight times more likely to develop more permanent symptoms of coronavirus.
However, the biggest difference between men and women was recorded between the ages of 40 and 50, where the risk was doubled. “It’s a pattern similar to what we see in autoimmune diseases. Problems such as rheumatoid arthritis, thyroid disease and lupus are two to three times more common in women just before menopause,” said Professor Spector.
According to Spector, this difference is probably due to a different reaction of male and female immunity to the coronavirus.
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