From the beginning, I’ve always wondered how the virus manages to know if someone has high blood pressure
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Meds may be implicated, but metabolic syndrome is likely the culprit in most cases of COVID that are serious .... obesity is a major comorbidity, diabetes, high blood pressure .... all symptoms of metabolic syndrome. Also, though not mentioned below, those with metabolic syndrome have a lot of inflammation .... already ‘inflamed’ and then along comes the inflammation of the cytokine storm & you’re screwed.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/metabolic-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20351916
From link:
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. These conditions include increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels.
Having just one of these conditions doesn’t mean you have metabolic syndrome. But it does mean you have a greater risk of serious disease. And if you develop more of these conditions, your risk of complications, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease, rises even higher.
Metabolic syndrome is increasingly common, and up to one-third of U.S. adults have it. [My note: this is the root cause of the so-called ‘obesity’ epidemic]
Bkmk
Thanks, and I’m familiar with Metabolic Syndrome from my studies on the diabetes scam (meaning diabetes is real, what they tell you to do about it is a scam).
And while Metabolic Syndrome does result in chemical changes, plenty of people without Metabolic Syndrome do have high blood pressure, perhaps due to genetics. So maybe they’re lazy in also telling people that high blood pressure is a risk factor, when they meant Metabolic Syndrome...or perhaps it’s the drugs they take for it. The problem is that they’re clueless because they’re so busy ‘studying’ guns.