Sex Differences and Predictors of In-Hospital Mortality among Patients with COVID-19: Results from the ANCOHVID Multicentre Study Fernández Martínez, Nicolás Francisco Rivera Izquierdo, Mario COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Hospital mortality Risk Factors Sex Spain is one of the countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although risk factors for severe disease are published, sex differences have been widely neglected. In this multicentre study, we aimed to identify predictors of in-hospital mortality in men and women hospitalised with COVID-19. An observational longitudinal study was conducted in the cohort of patients admitted to four hospitals in Andalusia, Spain, from 1 March 2020 to 15 April 2020. Sociodemographic and clinical data were collected from hospital records. The Kaplan–Meier method was used to estimate 30-day survival and multiple Cox regression models were applied. All analyses were stratified by sex. A total of 968 patients were included (54.8% men, median age 67.0 years). In-hospital mortality reached 19.1% in men and 16.0% in women. Factors independently associated with an increased hazard of death were advanced age, higher CURB-65 score and not receiving azithromycin treatment, in both sexes; active cancer and autoimmune disease, in men; cardiovascular disease and chronic lung disease, in women. Disease outcomes and predictors of death differed between sexes. In-hospital mortality was higher in men, but the long-term effects of COVID-19 merit further research. The sex-differential impact of the pandemic should be addressed in public health policies. 2021-09-29T10:29:44Z 2021-09-29T10:29:44Z 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Fernández-Martínez, N.F.; Ortiz-González-Serna, R.; Serrano-Ortiz, Á.; Rivera-Izquierdo, M.; Ruiz-Montero, R.; Pérez-Contreras, M.; Guerrero-Fernández de Alba, I.; Romero-Duarte, Á.; Salcedo-Leal, I. Sex Differences and Predictors of In-Hospital Mortality among Patients with COVID-19: Results from the ANCOHVID Multicentre Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 9018. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph18179018 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/70526 10.3390/ijerph18179018 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI