ABSTRACT
Introduction: All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating effect on the lives, Causing above six million death in word and more than twenty six thousand in Tunisia. It affected both sexes. The aim of our study was to determinate the characteristics of SARS-cov2 pneumonia in women. Method(s): A retrospective study was conducted including 356 patients admitted between September 2020 and April 2021 in the COVID-19 department of Nabeul regional hospital. Result(s): In our study, 152(42.69%) woman was included, mean age was 63.5[18-92]. Only one women was an active smoker comparing to 58 male in which almost the half had already stopped smoking. Medical past history was found in 68.8% of females dominated by cardio-vascular (51.9%) and respiratory (15.8%) diseases. No significant difference in cormorbidities was noticed in both groups (p=0.451). Five women were pregnant and 4 of them had severe pneumonia requiring a stay at the resuscitation service. Obesity was found in 35.9% of cases (61 male and 67 female). All hospitalized patients had severe COVID-19 pneumonia. The critic form (>75% of bilateral infiltrative lesions in chest CT scan) was higher in men (14.2%) than women (11.1%). There was no statistically significant difference in length of stay between the two groups (p=0.338) neither in mortality rate (p=0.946) or in severe cases needing a transfer to the resuscitation (p=0.814). Embolism seemed to be high in males (n=12) than females (n=2) (p=0.037). All EP cases were treated by DOAC. Conclusion(s): It had been clear that COVID-19 pneumonia had affected many lives during these two years from both sexes. Comorbidities, complications and mortality seems to have the same rate in both groups.