Posted on 04/20/2020 6:34:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
3 Bay Area counties share data in report published by CDC
Americans’ addiction to greasy junk food and heaping meal portions, disparities in access to healthy food and sitting for hours on end have made us especially vulnerable to COVID-19.
The United States has more obese people — about 40 percent of the overall population — than any other major nation, and obesity has been linked to chronic, preventable illnesses such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. Any of those conditions can lead to a more severe outcome of COVID-19.
A recent analysis of hospital network data found that 48 percent of patients being treated for the disease were obese.
The COVID-NET report, published on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, looked at 1,482 patients in 99 counties nationwide, including Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties in California. The data were collected between March 1 and March 31.
The data showed that 9 of 10 patients had an underlying medical condition, including:
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
This is why we won’t have Sweden’s numbers.
We are WAY fatter than Sweden.
Obese usually means diabetes...or “pre diabetes”.And that’s never good.
The obesity rate in a large number of states in the US is >30-35%.
How fat does a guy have to be before he’s officially “obese”?
I’m....uh...asking for a friend....
To calculate BMI, see the Adult BMI Calculator or determine BMI by finding your height and weight in this BMI Index Chartexternal icon.
If your BMI is less than 18.5, it falls within the underweight range.
If your BMI is 18.5 to <25, it falls within the normal.
If your BMI is 25.0 to <30, it falls within the overweight range.
If your BMI is 30.0 or higher, it falls within the obese range.
Obesity is frequently subdivided into categories:
Class 1: BMI of 30 to < 35
Class 2: BMI of 35 to < 40
Class 3: BMI of 40 or higher. Class 3 obesity is sometimes categorized as “extreme” or “severe” obesity.
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/defining.html
THAT is scary.
These folks should be out walking, in the sunshine, but they’re on lockdown.
Get out in the backyard and walk around, if nothing else.
That is a good guesstimate for friends.
Chicago’s mayor set up some task force to deal with the disproportionate number of Wu-flu deaths among minorities - I didn’t hear her press conference on it, but I kind of doubt it included this information:
“Obesity affects some groups more than others. Hispanics (47.0%) and non-Hispanic blacks (46.8%) had the highest age-adjusted prevalence of obesity, followed by non-Hispanic whites (37.9%) and non-Hispanic Asians (12.7%)”.
From: Adult Obesity Facts | Overweight & Obesity | CDC
www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
The BMI is a faulty method to determine obesity. Body type and lean muscle mass must be applied to it. I am 5’11” endo-meso with a good deal of lean muscle. I am considered 20lbs overweight at 185. I assure you I am not, with a 32” waist. So I would take this report and study with a grain of salt.
Man I’m a big fat #### and I’ve visited plenty of stores, a number of homes and my fat @@@ has been feeling pretty good :)
I’m also over 50.
It’s amazing i’m still alive!!!
Thank you Gawd!! A miracle!!!
Or maybe just so few get this thing that who gives a ####?
I think the issue is activity and obesity is the side effect.
My grandparents are lard all day long but they worked crazy hard and walked hours to work every day.
I have seen big belly rednecks bailng hay from 5am to 11pm. They may have been obese but they were in better shape than me and I am considered healthy weight.
But there is a very strong correlation between obesity levels in the population and the severity of the infection. Asia gets off lightly (least obese), Europe is bad, US is worse.
Saudis incidentally have very high BMI...
A better indicator would be fasting insulin number.
Also A1C.
Pinnipeds afeared...
A1C would be a good indicator on how well your pancreas is working to reduce sugar load and usually the high number would be consistent with low lean muscle percentage as muscle uses up sugar or glycogen for eneegy, thus keeping A1C low.
Huh?
40 percent of Americans are obese and 48 percent of COVID deaths are obese people.
Obese people have more health issues.
How is this even remotely surprising?
We’ve been in Shelter in Place for a while now. I’ve never seen so many people out walking.
We all own mirrors. It's clear ... very clear ... when we need to lose weight.
Ask me how I know this. I'm at least 10 lbs. fatter since the forced shutdown. My spin studio is closed and the community pool is closed. My work has disappeared and boredom eating has set in.
Unfortunately, there is no data on obesity levels in the coronavirus patients.
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Do you mean...as in specific BMI numbers?
(No, but the article confirms that a large % of the patients were obese.)
The article mentions that .... “A recent analysis of hospital network data found that 48 percent of patients being treated for the disease were obese.”
So, we know that their BMI level was at least <30
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