Health & ScienceData has shown that men are more likely to die after getting the coronavirusBald men may be at higher risk of suffering severe Covid-19 symptoms, emerging evidence suggests. In one study, 79 per cent of the men suffering with Covid-19 in three Madrid hospitals were bald. The background rate of baldness in white men of a similar age to the patients studied is between 31 and 53 per cent. “Everybody is chasing a link between androgens …and the outcome of Covid-19,” Howard Soule, executive vice president at the Prostate Cancer Foundation, told Science Magazine. SEE ALSO: Why bald men are at higher risk of Covid-19Prostate cancer specialists are familiar with the role androgens can play in disease because in the prostate, the hormones stimulate an enzyme that boosts cancerous growth.

Source: Standard Digital June 08, 2020 11:15 UTC