MOSCOW, June 23. /TASS/. Men produce more antibodies to the new coronavirus type than women. To such conclusion experts of the National health service UK (NHS). Briefly about it writes Sky News.
In his statistical study of NHS experts studied nearly 600 samples of blood plasma, of which 448 have passed men and 148 women. It turned out that 43% of men who were infected with coronavirus and cured in the plasma of blood contains enough antibodies to be used for transfusion to critically ill patients. While among women this figure is only 29%.
the Reason for this, according to doctors, is that men carry heavier this disease. Antibodies needed immune system to fight the virus, said one of the study’s authors David Roberts.
the harder passes coronavirus infection, the more antibodies the body produces.
“Our and many other studies show that men carry the coronavirus heavier than women, so they are better suited for the role of plasma donors,” explained Roberts.
