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A study tracking testosterone in hospitalized COVID-19 patients found a link between low levels in men and severe disease outcomes. The research offers important clues as to why men seem to be at greater risk of death due to coronavirus than women.
Although men do not experience a sharp decline in female sex hormones during menopause, they do experience a natural decline in hormones, which may have some
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Throughout the pandemic, doctors have seen evidence that men with COVID-19 fare worse, on average, than women with the infection. One theory is that hormonal differences between men and women may make men more susceptible to severe disease. And since men have much more testosterone than women, some scientists have speculated that high levels of testosterone may be to blame.
But a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that, among men, the opposite may be true: that low testosterone levels in the blood are linked to more severe disease. The study could not prove that low testosterone is a cause of severe COVID-19; low levels could simply serve as a marker of some other causal factors. Still, the researchers urge caution with ongoing clinical trials investigating hormonal therapies that block or lower testosterone or increase estrogen as a treatment for men with COVID-19.