Study shows steroid therapy for severely ill COVID-19 patients has had little to no benefit for Alberta women

Calgary Herald ^ | 11/16/2021 | Stephanie Babych

[simpson96]

A study released from the University of Calgary this week shows that a drug used to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients has had little to no benefit for women, according to researchers.

One of the main treatments for severe COVID-19 lung infections, dexamethasone, alters how immune cells work, and research into the way people’s immune system responds to COVID-19 shows that the sex of a patient might impact the effectiveness of certain drugs, including dexamethasone. The study found the drug may only be benefiting male patients.

“We found that the males derived benefit from the steroids and the females, at both the cellular level and at the population level, received limited benefit,” said Dr. Bryan Yipp, associate professor with the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine.

“Currently, it’s possible the mainstay therapy for severe COVID-19 that we’re giving everybody is only benefiting half the population. This is a big problem.”

[simpson96]

Not "glass half full" folks, are they?

[refermech]

Life just isn’t fair!

[Liaison]

I guess it will matter what gender you really are to a doctor… oops!

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Geez, I don’t know. Why not take a wild, wild gamble, and try Ivermectin or Hydrochloroquinine? I mean, no one’s EVER thought of, or suggested, using those drugs to counter the CCP-Coronavirus, have they?

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[saintgermaine]

I agree whole heartedly, why not try some stuff what works like ivermectin, large amounts of ascorbic acid ( C ) HCQ zinc, quercetin, Lysine etc. and don’t wait until the last minute either, as time is precious as the longer you wait the more difficult it becomes to get his Chinese disease under control. The problem is, they just can’t make money from it.

[Paal Gulli]

I do wish these idiots would learn to distinguish corticosteroids from anabolic steroids. Use the word “steroids” in the headline and the unwashed immediately think it’s dianabol or synthetic testosterone or some other anabolic–androgenic steroid.

Then again, that’s probably why they don’t bother. Because they know you probably wouldn’t bother to click on it if they admitted up front it was “only” a corticosteroid.