The correlation between the concentration of ovarian steroid and the severity of COVID-19 in females

Background: Coronaviruses are positive single-stranded RNA viruses that have a spherical shape and some spike-shaped proteins (spike proteins) that project from their surface, from which they derive their name because they resemble a solar corona. The RNA sequence of SARS-CoV-2 is approximately thirty thousand nucleotides in length and encodes both structural and non-structural proteins. Objective: To assess the relation between the concentration of ovarian steroid and the severity of covid-19 in females. Patients and method: A cross sectional study carried at Consulting clinic for chest and respiratory diseases in Babylon Governorate at the period from 1st of January 2021 to the 1st of June 2021. Patients were female infected with COVID-19 with in age between 25-65 years old. Results: mean age in the studied group was (44.75±13.87) years and the main age group between 40-49 years (29.6%), the majority of the patients (96.3%) were married women, and (71.6%) were obese.&nbsp