What are the effects of gender and age on the occurrence of clinically suspected myocarditis in adulthood?
Young men and postmenopausal women are at highest risk for clinically suspected myocarditis, with hospital admissions inversely associated with age.
Men are significantly more susceptible to myocarditis than women. Young men are especially at risk for acquiring myocarditis, while women are affected most commonly at the postmenopausal age. The proportion of hospital admissions caused by myocarditis has an inverse, logarithmic association with age.
Kytö et al. (Mon,) studied this question.