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Study finds a significant number of older men don’t have chronic diseases associated with severe COVID‐19

Sep01
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CEPAR researchers Professor Fiona Blyth, Honorary Professor Robert Cumming and Dr Saman Khalatbari-Soltani, and colleagues have found that a significant number of Australian men aged over 70 years living in the community do not have the chronic conditions that are being associated with more severe COVID‐19.


Cumming, R.G., Khalatbari‐Soltani, S., Blyth, F.M., Naganathan, V. and Le Couteur, D.G. (2020): Not all older men have the chronic diseases associated with severe COVID‐19. Australas J Ageing. doi:10.1111/ajag.12839