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标题：Does endometriosis increase susceptibility to COVID-19 infections? A case–control study in women of reproductive age
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作者：Bahram Moazzami ; Shahla Chaichian ; Saeed Samie 等
期刊名称：BMC Women's Health
印刷版ISSN：1472-6874
电子版ISSN：1472-6874
出版年度：2021
卷号：21
期号：1
页码：1-7
DOI：10.1186/s12905-021-01270-z
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：In today’s world, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the most critical health problem and research is continued on studying the associated factors. But it is not clear whether endometriosis increases the risk of COVID-19. Women who referred to the gynecology clinic were evaluated and 507 women with endometriosis (case group) were compared with 520 women without endometriosis (control group). COVID-19 infection, symptoms, exposure, hospitalization, isolation, H1N1 infection and vaccination, and past medical history of the participants were recorded and compared between the groups using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows version 21. Comparison between the groups represent COVID-19 infection in 3.2% of the case group and 3% of the control group (P = 0.942). The control group had a higher frequency of asymptomatic infection (95.7% vs. 94.5%; P 0.05). Endometriosis does not increase the susceptibility to COVID-19 infections, but alters the manifestation of the disease. The prevalence of the disease may depend on the interaction between the virus and the individual’s immune system but further studies are required in this regard.
关键词：Endometriosis ; Coronavirus ; COVID-19 ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Risk factors ; Immunologic factors