The female hormone estrogen may protect women from severe heart disease and death caused by COVID-19, said Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) in a press release on Thursday. READ:
HELSINKI, Finland — The female hormone estrogen may protect women from severe heart disease and death caused by COVID-19, said Helsinki University Hospital in a press release on Thursday.
The mortality rate for women receiving the estrogen supplement was 2.1 percent, compared with 4.6 percent for women in the control group, according to the study.The study compared the mortality of women diagnosed with COVID-19 disease at the beginning of the pandemic with the effect of estrogen on mortality.
The group receiving estrogen-lowering therapy had the highest risk of death. However, a causal relationship to estrogen could not be established as patients in this group were older than the control group and had received cancer treatment. Age and cancer treatments increase the risk of serious heart disease and death caused by COVID-19.
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