Posted on 12/28/2021 8:43:44 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who had a combination of high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, or other conditions associated with metabolic syndrome were at much higher risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome and death, according to an international study.
The risk for developing acute respiratory distress syndrome, a life-threatening lung condition that causes low blood oxygen, grew progressively higher with each additional metabolic syndrome criteria present.
Patients with metabolic syndrome were 36% more likely to develop acute respiratory distress syndrome, almost 20% more likely to die in the hospital, more than 30% more likely to be admitted to an ICU, and 45% more likely to require mechanical ventilation. Researchers calculated these risks after adjusting for race, age, sex, ethnicity, other comorbidities and hospital case volume.
Overall, slightly more than 20% of the patients with metabolic syndrome died in the hospital, 20% developed acute respiratory distress syndrome and almost half were admitted to the ICU. Approximately 16% of those without metabolic syndrome died, 12% developed acute respiratory distress syndrome, and nearly 36% were admitted to the ICU.
Metabolic syndrome was significantly more common among patients with COVID-19 admitted to U.S. hospitals (18.8%) than those admitted to non-U.S. hospitals (8%). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one-third of adults in the U.S. meet the criteria for metabolic syndrome, with some regions having a metabolic syndrome prevalence greater than 40%.
Severe cases of COVID-19 are characterized by a hyperinflammatory immune response to the infection throughout the body. Authors suspect that chronic low-grade inflammation from metabolic diseases, mainly when clustered together, could make these patients more vulnerable to COVID-19.
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so would metabolic dysfunction be associated with lower risk?
Metabolic syndrome is the most common form of metabolic dysfunction.
“Severe cases of COVID-19 are characterized by a hyperinflammatory immune response to the infection throughout the body”
Two years in and there is still no recommendation of early treatment so it DOESN’T BECOME SEVERE!
I am a walking comorbidity...60’ overweight, with a reactive airway ( not quite asthma but close) and a-fib
Our family had Covid in Nov of 2020. We followed the modified Zelenko protocol of quercitin and zinc, and used some symptom-specific homeopathy right away. I have had worse allergy attacks.
It’s my understanding that you need to attack the virus while it’s in the throat on the first few days before it moves to the lungs. And yet the medical profession sort of shrugs and says “Take some Tylenol (useless!) And come back if you can’t breathe” With that sort of advice, “if” becomes “ when” pretty quickly if you’re at all compromised
Yes and more reason to let people know and access early treatment and for hospitals to offer such treatments as IV vitamin C to prevent inflammation.
yep=- brain fart- i was thinking metabolic dysfunction, where energy is slowed down due to breakdown- was wondering if it might not slow the process of the body turning on itself and attacking itself when affected by covid- if it woudl disrupt the cytokine storm-
do you have asthma inhalers? that is what they were giving to patients of covid who were hospitalized- reduces inflammation and supposedly helps-
I have these symptoms too, but when I had acute respiratory failure we discovered thata the problem was that I have sleep apnea. And I open my mouth when I relax into sleep. This keeps my oxygen low and with a mostly sleepless night I progressed and my a-fib and the rest all got wors until myu lungs filled with fluid.
You might want to check on your sleep if you “get up to pee” several times a night. With a ventilator and oxygen at night I am getting better and my lungs are clearing up.
Too bad the MD who diagnosed reactive airway did not follow up and check with a sleep study.
More proof Fauci the Great and his whole approach to Covid was a fraud.
He was wrong about vaccines stopping the virus in it’s tracks to all elements of the treatment of the virus.
He and Joe alone have killed 400 thousand American’s to date.......not so mention the number on Trumps watch.....
Let’s follow the science NOW and see how he did.......
bkmk
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