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. 2020 Jul 1;130(7):3350-3352.
doi: 10.1172/JCI139306.

Clinical trials for COVID-19 should include sex as a variable

Evelyne Bischof  1   2 , Jeannette Wolfe  3 , Sabra L Klein  4   5
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Clinical trials for COVID-19 should include sex as a variable

Evelyne Bischof et al. J Clin Invest. .
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Conflict of interest: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.

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Figure 1. Sex-disaggregated COVID-19 data.
The Global Health 50/50 research initiative provides real-time sex-disaggregated data from countries worldwide (accessed May 3, 2020). Based on their analyses of data from 69 countries, 50% of the countries are sex-disaggregating COVID-19 cases, deaths, or both. For the 44 countries that have sex-disaggregated COVID-19 cases, 34% report a male bias, 45% report a female bias, and 21% report no sex bias (i.e., 50% ± 1% for each sex). For the 45 countries reporting sex-disaggregated COVID-19 deaths, 87% report a male bias, 2% report a female bias, and 11% report no sex bias (i.e., 50% ± 1% for each sex).
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