In fully adjusted models which included exposure variable, age, region, and interaction of region with time, the full suite of sociodemographic, lifestyle and medical variables, and time of blood sampling (model 2), total testosterone, and SHBG remained associated with risk of dying from COVID-19 (overall trends, P = 0.008 and P = 0.008, Table 3). Here, SHBG is linked to COVID-19.