Posted on 04/29/2020 6:44:10 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...Recent reports, then, that excessive flab may be a leading indicator of susceptibility to the novel coronavirus are problematic indeed. Here are the specifics so far: as Melissa Healy reported in the Los Angeles Times last week, two new studies, both out of New York University, show that young and middle-aged COVID-19 sufferers with high body-mass indexes (BMIs) are “twice as likely as their non-obese peers to be admitted to the hospital for acute care instead of being sent home from the ER.” They’re also nearly twice as likely to end up in the ICU. (Among patients over 65, interestingly, these distinctions disappear.) One of the studies suggests that Americans’ generous waistlines might help explain why COVID-19 illness and mortality statistics are “higher in the U.S. than in South Korea, China and Italy.” Meanwhile, the other NYU study concluded that the three “most potent predictor[s] of hospitalization for COVID-19” were (1) being over 75, (2) being between 65 and 75, and (3) exhibiting “severe obesity.” Persons in this last category, it turns out, are “more than six times more likely to be hospitalized” than thinner individuals. “Even a history of heart failure,” wrote Healy, “was less likely to land a COVID-19 patient in the hospital” than a major problem with paunchiness...
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A wise man once said “Fat, Drunk and stupid is no way to go thru life”
name him, ping him
Our rates are NOT higher than China’s. That is a lie.
Obese people often have trouble breathing. Plus their bodies are already having trouble keeping those all those inner systems hitting on all cylinders.
Obesity is probably NOT why all those people died in nursing homes in NYC, however. There just could not have been THAT many obese people in Detroit, right?
Health of Black or African American non-Hispanic Population
• Percent of men aged 20 and over with obesity: 37.5% (2013-2016)
• Percent of women aged 20 and over with obesity: 56.1% (2013-2016)
name him, ping him
John Wayne?
That was a reply to post #1, not to post #2. Try to stay caught up...
Dean Wormer.
actually the person that was named was Twinkie
“The Pandemic’s Biggest Victims?”
The MSM-which never ceases finding new ways to cover itself with sh&#!
JUST when you think you have seen and heard every public display of incompetence, ignorance and arrogance.... THERE THEY GO AGAIN!!
Hopefully, this Twinkie weighs in heavily on the article posted with some meaty comments. Despite how that sounds, I actually mean that quite sincerely. I think the author of the article has a good point.
I don’t think being overweight alone is the problem. I’d be willing to bet it has more to do with exercise habits. I’m a bit overweight, but I power walk 5 miles every single day and am generally pretty active and healthy. If you are in the habit of getting some aerobic exercise every day where you stretch and exercise your lungs, I’d guess you’d have a good chance of being OK. If you’re overweight and just sit around all day and eat crap and never exercise, then you may be in trouble.
I agree. I think it is the obese and inactive, which usually go together, who are in the most trouble.
Some people are overweight due to medication they take, but they try to mitigate this by generally eating well and exercising.
I genuinely feel sorry for people who become overweight due to some sort of condition they developed or condition they have that has not been properly diagnosed yet but who eat well.
There is something really, really wrong with a person in NYC who does not walk a lot. But in certain neighborhoods in NYC, you would be amazed by the numbers of really, really overweight people you see.
My grandfather lived in NYC and well into his seventies he would often walk a couple of miles to the eye doctor or whatever rather than taking the subway in order to save money, get exercise, and just in general get out and see things. He would be careful to do this in the winter, if it wasn’t dangerously cold, so as to avoid catching the flu on the subway. He probably took the subway or bus if it was 100 degrees, but if the weather was okay, he just walked.
If he didn’t have many places to go in a given week, he walked to the park and walked within in.
That was to post 1, not post 2.
I don’t think there are that many obese people over 65. Obesity tends to weed them out early it seems.
That, or their appetite winds down.
I just looked back and it seems that Twinkie’s posting history was only for two weeks in May of 2017. She said she was in her Seventies. The ping appears to be an exercise in futility.
Maybe I shouldn’t have told her the urban dictionary definition of twinkie...
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