Low-T (Testosterone) Indicates Severity of Covid in Men | ON MEN
Consistently male patients suffer severe Covid as compared to female patients. This led to a wrong conclusion that testosterone might be the culprit since men have more testosterone than women. Study of Covid and Testosterone: Serum samples were analyzed from Covid positive patients admitted between March to May 2020, at the Barnes Jewish Hospital, Missouri. Testosterone, Estradiol and IGF-1 were measured at different time intervals to investigate if their concentrations in the blood was associated to severity of COVID19 and inflammation. Findings: Higher levels of testosterone protected patients from severity of disease, and Low-T indicated severity of corona virus and inflammation. This s tudy which was probing if any connection exists between levels of sex hormones in the blood and acute Covid, found the opposite evidence. Testosterone protected men from causing severe corona virus. This was true taking into consideration age, race, comorbidities, BMI. Across the board it was f...