Women have a higher risk for long covid. Estrogen may play a role.

Washington Post

A new study shows non-menopausal women between the ages of 40 and 54 had a significantly higher risk of developing long covid than men. Women have a higher risk of developing long covid than men, depending on their stage of life and whether they have experienced menopause, according to a new nationwide study from RECOVER, the long covid research initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health. The research, published in January, studied more than 12,000 adults and found that overall, female participants had a 31 percent higher risk of developing long covid after an infection with the coronavirus than male counterparts. Women between the ages of 40 and 54 who were not yet menopausal were at the highest risk and were 45 percent more likely to develop long covid than men of the same agegroup.

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