Demographic Evidence of Sex Differences in Vulnerability to Infectious Diseases: Table 1.

To the Editor—The journal's recent supplement on sex differences in susceptibility and response to infectious diseases was an excellent initiative for promoting research on a neglected topic of major interest [1–8]. If, in general, males show a higher susceptibility to many infectious diseases, the reviews displayed a number of infectious and autoimmune diseases for which females are more vulnerable. Differential vulnerability between males and...