Does Endometriosis Increase Susceptibility to COVID–19 Infections? A case-control study in Women of Reproductive Age

Background 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. Methods Women who referred to the gynecology clinic were evalua...

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Published in:BMC Women's Health 2020
Main Authors: Moazzami, Bahram, Chaichian, Shahla, Samie, Saeed, Masoumeh Majidi Zolbin, Jesmi, Fatemeh, Akhlaghdoust, Meisam, Mahin Ahmadi Pishkuhi, Zahra Sadat Mirshafiei, Khalilzadeh, Fereshteh, Safari, Dorsa
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Language:English
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Endometriosis
Infections
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Summary:Background 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. Methods 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. Results Comparison between the groups represent COVID–19 infection in 3.2% of the case group and 3% of the control group (P = .942). The control group had a higher frequency of asymptomatic infection (95.7% vs. 94.5%; P 
DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-53422/v1