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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
RE: "DO MEN HAVE A HIGHER CASE FATALITY RATE OF SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME THAN WOMEN DO?"
Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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In a recent issue of the Journal, Karlberg et al. (1) reported on an analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) data from Hong Kong. The authors found a substantial and statistically significantly higher mortality rate for males than for females, which persisted after adjustment for patient age. We wish to report the results of an analysis of similar data from