Posted on 07/04/2021 8:27:14 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
I have returned from a much-needed 12-day break from the news, returning to California and finding little has changed from the mask-mad mandates that have been imposed for over a year.
Reviewing recent reports, I have noted that our media seems to be relatively silent on a factor that may be significant in assessing risk of hospitalization or death from COVID-19: obesity.
For example, [SNIP] two new, large studies from England and Mexico provide new details on obesity as a risk factor for poor COVID-19–related outcomes.
In the first study, published yesterday in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, University of Oxford researchers extracted data from the QResearch database for nearly 7 million English patients 20 years and older with available body mass index (BMI) values registered at an eligible general practice from Jan 24 to Apr 30, 2020.
It is the largest study to date assessing body weight and COVID outcomes.
Of 6,910,695 eligible patients with a mean BMI of 26.8 kg/m2, 0.20% were hospitalized, 0.02% were admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), and 0.08% died after they were diagnosed as having COVID-19. Roughly one third of patients with severe coronavirus outcomes had type 2 diabetes, and most were 60 years or older.
…The second study, led by researchers at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion and the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez in Mexico City, was published today in Epidemiology & Infection.
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The case-fatality rate was 9.2%, and 21% of hospitalized patients died. Obesity alone almost tripled the risk of death (aHR, 2.7), while obesity combined with other underlying illnesses increased the risk of death and other severe outcomes even further (diabetes HR, 2.79; immunosuppression HR, 5.06; high blood pressure HR, 2.30).
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It is also known that Vitamin D levels played a critical role. It may be possible that high serum levels of Vitamin D would even eliminate the risk of dying for obese patients.
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This has been known for at least a year.
Doctors in New York were able to determine this and write it up last year.
“ The agency found the risk for hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths was lowest among individuals with BMIs under 25. The risk of severe illness “sharply increased,” however, as BMIs rose, particularly among people 65 and older, the agency said.
“Just over 42% of the U.S. population was considered obese in 2018, according to the agency’s most recent statistics.
Normal 18.5 - 25
Overweight 25 - 30
Obese Class I 30 - 35
Obese Class II 35 - 40
Obese Class III > 40
According to the BMI chart, I’m too short…
I’m effed.
😂.... funny.
D3 to be exact. :) with zinc
I am abby normal. I’m not even on that chart.
I don’t think it’s the obesity itself. Rather, it’s the medical conditions that are associated with obesity.
For example, [SNIP] two new, large studies from England and Mexico provide new details on obesity as a risk factor for poor COVID-19–related outcomes.
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The studies wouldn’t be so large if they’d watch their intake of high carbohydrate foods.
OMG!
Just these last days I wanted to see if any newer demographics came out about death from COVID.
My MIL died from it.
She was very obese. BMI like 44. She seemed in good shape per se (yes she had several other medical factors but seemed “healthy and active”) at 77. But she went down fast.
My mother (and we) had gone thru COVID just the weeks prior. She was 83 and seemingly in worse shape…definitely less active and very frail like. Yet, she had a decent cold from it. Over it within a week.
Later I’d heard some insight that weight may be the biggest factor! So I wanted to look into this. Thanks for info.
Just another known problem that ties in with the aged and C-19 possibilities. Please notice the consistency with the, so called, higher rate of death with the aged.
Obesity rates were progressively higher among older age groups. Adult obesity rates were lowest among young adults ages 18 to 24 (22.4%), and highest among adults between ages 45 and 74. And their records indicate that that is consistent with the highest rates of death.
Obesity in the aged has been misrepresented for years. The increased prevalence of obesity in older ages concurs with age-related changes in body composition, that is, a progressive increase in fat mass and a decline in lean mass and bone. There is also body fat redistribution, with an increase in visceral abdominal fat and a decrease in subcutaneous abdominal fat.
Toss in illness and pain that retards exercise to maintain a minimal calorie intake and you will have obesity. The body is not able to function at advanced ages like a 20 year old.
Additionally body created assistance like hormone that most levels decline, it causes endocrine functions to generally declines with age because hormone receptors become less sensitive. It’s just called getting old and the death rates of people in this phase of life are a major part of the contribution naturally to illnesses like covid.
Old people just get sick and pass easier. It isn’t obesity that is the cause, it’s the cause of obesity that makes it happen. And that’s an aged body. Wonder how much cash someone paid for this crap.
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Uh, I think so. What seems to be is that most deaths are fat people.
That’s a big deal. I know lots of people who have high BP, diabetes, etc, yet aren’t fat. And conversely. And we’re talking death, not getting some disease.
Maybe they can post a photo montage of the victims and we can judge for ourselves. “What characteristic do you think is common to almost all of these….?”
Considering that over 60% of the country is obese?
The Broadway actor that died was nowhere near obese he wasn’t even overweight.
How many actually died of covid. We will never know, since they count all deaths as a covid death if they tested positive.
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