Sandeep Appunni, Muni Rubens, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Anshul Saxena, Mayur Doke, Mukesh Roy, Juan Gabriel Ruiz-Pelaez, Yanjia Zhang, Md Ashfaq Ahmed, Zhenwei Zhang, Peter McGranaghan, Sandra Chaparro, Javier Jimenez
OBJECTIVES: Many epidemiological studies have shown that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disproportionately affects males, compared with females, although other studies show that there were no such differences. The aim of the present study was to assess differences in the prevalence of hospitalizations and in-hospital outcomes between the sexes, using a larger administrative database. METHODS: We used the 2020 California State Inpatient Database for this retrospective analysis...
February 2024: Southern Medical Journal