{"id":106917,"date":"2020-05-11T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T17:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/men-have-high-levels-of-enzyme-key-to-covid-19-infection-study-finds"},"modified":"2020-05-11T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T17:42:18","slug":"men-have-high-levels-of-enzyme-key-to-covid-19-infection-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/men-have-high-levels-of-enzyme-key-to-covid-19-infection-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Men have high levels of enzyme key to COVID-19 infection, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/men-have-high-levels-of-enzyme-key-to-covid-19-infection-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s blood has higher levels than women\u2019s of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells, the results of a big European study showed on Monday \u2014 a finding which may help explain why men are more vulnerable to infection with COVID-19. One of the strongest biomarkers, ACE2, was much higher in men than in women\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2014 Men\u2019s blood has higher levels than women\u2019s of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells, the results of a big European study showed on Monday \u2014 a finding which may help explain why men are more vulnerable to infection with COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men\u2019s blood has higher levels than women\u2019s of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells, the results of a big European study showed on Monday \u2014 a finding which may help explain why men are more vulnerable to infection with COVID-19. One of the strongest biomarkers, ACE2, was much higher in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}