some 47% of americans have high blood pressure like me, and are at higher (about double) the risk of death from wuflu.
Just a data point for ya.
some 47% of americans have high blood pressure like me, and are at higher (about double) the risk of death from wuflu.
Just a data point for ya.
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That’s your fearful opinion, not data. Are you over 70? Is your blood pressure — and your body weight — thru the roof? If yes to all, quarantine yourself, not the rest of us.
It's not your high blood pressure. ACE Inhibitors, ARBs, thiazides are all suspect in helping the virus. Calcium channel blockers seem to be OK.
From a correspondence article in The Lancet Respiratory. The theory is backed up by review of who faired the worst in China.
www.thelancet.com/respiratory Published online March 11, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30116-8
Is this accurate? 47% of Americans implies 47% of all Americans. Perhaps you mean 47% of Americans over a certain age have high blood pressure.
Are you on an ACE inhibitor for HBP? If so, then you may be high risk, as the coronavirus attaches itself to the ACE2 protein sites in cells of the lungs.
The simple way to get information would be to see what type of drugs those who have died were on, but of course the medical community in its wisdom keeps saying “we don’t have any evidence”. I might add to that comment “and we don’t wish to find any....”.
Stay home
I know plenty of people who most likely already caught this China flu and recovered.
Data point for you