id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-294517-tqpf95kk Nimgaonkar, I. The Age Pattern of the Male- to- Female Ratio in Mortality from COVID-19 Mirrors that of Cardiovascular Disease but not Cancer in the General Population 2020-07-11 .txt text/plain 3165 175 54 Moreover, we found a similar pattern in sex ratio of deaths by age for cardiovascular disease, which is strongly associated with increased risk of dying from COVID-19. In searching for explanations for the distinctive pattern of deaths in COVID-19, we first examined variation by age group in the male-to-female (sex) ratio of mortality in data from the . Since the COVID-19 data were not linked to population databases with individual-level health information, we could not specifically examine the potential contribution of CVD to the age pattern of the sex mortality ratio from COVID-19. . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.10.20149013 doi: medRxiv preprint persons older than 60 years, might partially reflect the same underlying mechanisms that drive the age pattern of the sex mortality ratio for CVD in the general population. ./cache/cord-294517-tqpf95kk.txt ./txt/cord-294517-tqpf95kk.txt