{"id":8555,"date":"2025-01-22T15:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8555"},"modified":"2025-01-22T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:12:52","slug":"are-women-more-prone-to-long-covid-than-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/22\/are-women-more-prone-to-long-covid-than-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Women More Prone To Long Covid Than Men?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anuradhavaranasi\/2025\/01\/22\/are-women-more-prone-to-long-covid-than-men\/\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women are at a higher risk of developing long Covid than men. However, men are more likely to suffer from severe Covid-19 infections and have higher mortality rates, according to a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2024.55430?guestAccessKey=62824e6e-169a-426a-8a37-35e42859ea0e&amp;utm_source=for_the_media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_content=tfl&amp;utm_term=012225\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>JAMA<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;study. More specifically, women are 1.31 times more likely to have long Covid than their male counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA review of the literature combined with our data suggests that differences in hormonal levels may partially explain the higher prevalence of long Covid in females younger than 55 years. An attenuation in the risk ratio of long Covid for females aged 18 to 39 years may be explained by most pregnant individuals belonging to this age category,\u201d the authors explained in the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur data align with published data on post-viral myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) and fibromyalgia, which are disorders that are female predominant and have known alterations in the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis,\u201d they added. \u201cMultiple studies have demonstrated that chronic conditions, such as autoimmune diseases, osteoporosis, ME\/CFS, and Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, are more prevalent in females compared with males.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anuradhavaranasi\/2025\/01\/22\/are-women-more-prone-to-long-covid-than-men\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes Women are at a higher risk of developing long Covid than men. However, men are more likely to suffer from severe Covid-19 infections and have higher mortality rates, according to a new&nbsp;JAMA&nbsp;study. More specifically, women are 1.31 times more likely to have long Covid than their male counterparts. \u201cA review of the literature combined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8556,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions\/8556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}