Fab analysis @hannahrickman.bsky.social - will we be well cited. are there sex-stratified data for house-hold contacts for which we may expect similar exposures?
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Thanks! Quite a lot of HHC studies out there, which we excluded here - but from those I read with sex-disaggregated data, I didn't get a sense of a clear trend for ⬆️ risk in either direction. It is difficult though to fully "control" on exposure, due to... [contd]
1) Sex differences in interactions even within households
2) Differential exposure outside household (restricting to low-incidence settings would help)
3) Men are more likely to have female partners! So female HHCs more likely exposed to male index patients: on average, more infectious for longer.
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2) Differential exposure outside household (restricting to low-incidence settings would help)
3) Men are more likely to have female partners! So female HHCs more likely exposed to male index patients: on average, more infectious for longer.