Why does Coronervirus kill more men than women?

Smoking, alcohol, poor health: Researchers say that these are some of the factors that may explain why more men die than women from Coronobrus.

In countries such as Italy, men represent nearly 60% of people who tested positively for the virus and more than 70% of those who have died, according to the country's National Health Institute (ISS). Even in countries like South Korea, where the percentage of women who have tested positive for the virus is higher than that of men, about 54% of reported deaths are men.

When CNN asked U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about gender sharing of data for cases and deaths in the United States by the Coronavirus, the CDC did not respond.

Including information about those who are ill can help provide more effective responses to the crisis. But public health researchers say that when governments like the United States either do not collect or publish their data, it is impossible for experts to have an accurate sense of what is happening.

In collaboration with Global Health, a research institute that examines gender inequality in global health, CNN analysed the available data of the 20 countries' public with the largest number of cases confirmed with David-19 (at the time of data collection, March 20th). The purpose was to see why men seemed to be dying more than women.

Of these 20 countries, only six provided separate gender data on confirmed cases and deaths: China, France, Germany, Iran, Italy and South Korea. Men were found to be 50% more predisposed than women to die, for they were diagnosed with Coddy-19. This was related not only to biologically but also to gender behavior - the way men live.

Historically, coronarys like SARS and MERCS tend to touch men disproportionally, according to Dr. Louis Ostrosky-Zeichner, infectious disease specialist at McGovern Medical School in UTHealth in Texas.

From an evolutionary standpoint, some research suggests that women have a stronger immune response to viral infections than men, because they spend part of their lives with a foreign body inside, their descendants, which gives them an advantage of survival.

In most countries, for example, what we see is that men smoke and drink at a much higher rate than women”, said Sarah Hawkes, a professor of global public health at College University in London and a co-director of Global Health.

As long as gender-based data is not available to the public, they cannot be analysed by external experts, such as Global Health, to give the reason why men are dying the most by David-19.