Insight on Sex-Based Immunity Differences, With COVID-19 Implications

Women and men have striking differences in their autoimmune disease risk, their predisposition to and prognosis with various cancers, and their ability to respond to some infections —including the novel coronavirus. New research offers a potential explanation for these distinctions: sex-based differences in neutrophils, humans’ most common circulating immune cells.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research