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Women more likely to die from blood infection

Clinicians around the world have long suspected that bacteraemia due to Staphylococcus aureushas a worse outcome in women compared to men, but direct evidence has been elusive.

A study recently published confirms that significantly more women than men diagnosed with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) – a blood infection of the common bacteria – die within 30 days. Researchers from Denmark and Spain analysed data on 2,638 patients diagnosed with bacteraemia caused by Staphylococcus aureus. The study authors extracted data from population-based medical registers in Denmark from 2000 and 2011. 

When they assessed deaths within the first 30 days, they found that 29% of the women died compared to 22% of the men. Women therefore are 1.3 times more likely to die within a month of developing Staphylococcus aureusbacteraemia (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.30 [95% CI; 1.11-1.53]). The findings were published in the June issue of the journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infection–the official journal of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). 

“It is worth noting that the link between gender and fatality was seen across all age groups and the greatest risk of death appeared to be in women who were diabetic or who had a diagnosis of chronic pulmonary disease or cancer,” commented Dr Jesper Smit from the Aalborg University Hospital, one of the study’s authors.

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