Posted on 12/01/2022 4:21:52 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Professor Dale Nyholt, said a key finding was that one of the 344 studied blood analytes had widespread shared genetic influences with COVID-19 causing an increased risk of severe COVID-19.
"Our genetic causality analyses found that higher levels of triglycerides, a type of fat that is a cardiovascular disease biomarker, was strongly linked to increased risk of severe COVID-19 disease," Professor Nyholt.
"The high genetic causality proportion of 0.82 indicates that increased triglyceride levels are causal for severe COVID-19 disease.
"This fits with the observation that hospitalized patients who died or were in ICU had significantly higher levels of triglycerides compared to those who were discharged or had a mild case.
"Our finding provides a genetic explanation for the greater severity of disease for people with higher triglycerides and supports the use of lipid-lowering drugs such as statins and fibrates against severe COVID-19."
Ph.D. candidate Hamzeh Mesrian Tanha said they had used genome-wide association studies (GWAS) data to search for shared genetic influences between severe COVID-19 and blood analytes at the levels of the genome, gene, and differences in a single DNA base.
"Our analyses genetically linked blood levels of 71 analytes to severe COVID-19 in at least one of the three levels of investigation, suggesting common biological mechanisms or causal relationships," Mr. Tanha said.
"Of those 71 analytes, we found six that showed evidence of shared influence with severe COVID-19 at all three levels, among these only triglycerides showed causality."
Mr. Tanha said a recent study of COVID-19 patients in hospital treated with statins had fewer deaths compared with a group of those who did not receive this treatment.
"However, retrospective studies have produced conflicting results on the protective effect of the prior use of statins. This could be partially explained by the presence of other medical conditions.
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But....
The almost three-year mortality rate for the "severe" and "deadly" virus is 0.0836 percent, making the survival rate for the entire population over the same period to be 99.92 percent.
In other words “diabeetus”
High blood sugar correlates with Cortisol issues as well.
Negative cascading health effects.
Some very simple advice:
1. Shop the perimeter of your grocery store
2. Lift weights
3. Walk/hike
4. Get ample sleep
5. Minimize stress/meditate/do yoga/pray
6. Supplements
Except for the ample sleep you described my life.
I take a magnesium drink (Calm) about an hour or so around bed, then meditate for around 40 minutes.
It has helped me with sleep.
Magnesium and meditation are both supposed to help get one from being in the Sympathetic Nervous system to Para-sympathetic.
There is also a severe risk of myocarditis elevated by high troglodyte levels
Yep. Being diabetic can make otherwise survivable situations terminal. My mother in law died from Covid, and I’m sure one of the factors in the virus killing her was that she was diabetic.
The standard American diet is high in sugar and deadly on its own. Combine it with Covid and it’s a disaster.
I use the Calm brand melatonin with magnesium at night & sleep like a baby.
“Feed a cold, starve a fever” has some validity.
Of course it doesn’t mean actual starvation, it refers to fasting.
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