Posted on 04/12/2020 2:09:47 PM PDT by familyop
For months, scientists have been poring over data about cases and deaths to understand why it is that COVID-19 manifests itself in different ways around the world, with certain factors such as the age of the population repeatedly popping up as among the most significant determinants.
Now, one of the largest studies conducted of COVID-19 infection in the United States has found that obesity of patients was the single biggest factor in whether those with COVID-19 had to be admitted to a hospital.
"The chronic condition with the strongest association with critical illness was obesity, with a substantially higher odds ratio than any cardiovascular or pulmonary disease," write lead author Christopher M. Petrilli of the NYU Grossman School and colleagues in a paper, "Factors associated with hospitalization and critical illness among 4,103 patients with Covid-19 disease in New York City,"...
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
“Nearly three-quarters of American men and more than 60% of women are obese or overweight.” - IHME
I’m doing Keto.
trumps fault
Because oxygen depletion is the big issue here.
It takes a LOT of oxygen to keep a big body working.
They have oxygenation issues even if they aren’t sick and compromised. heart and lungs wokr very hard normally to get oxygen to huge bodies.
Good. It works.
Thanks. Also...
Calculate Your Body Mass Index
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm
But ... but at least they were body positive, body confident, and empowered, or whatever the current terminology for being fat is.
But But I thought fat shaming was wrong, now we are told being fat is causing more death, gee who would have thought it, being 400+ pounds isn’t a good thing
And see “Limitations of the BMI” on the linked page in regards to muscular builds and measuring the waist.
This was totally predictable, since obese people are more at risk from any disease.
It also explains why many Asian countries had substantially less hospitalizations than the US.
It should be amusing to watch politically correct “leaders” tap dance around this one....
I’m getting fatter by the minute, stuck here with my Cheetos and booze.
Being overweight doesn’t mean obese
They used a BMI of 30
No surrpise, at least not to me. Figures I saw recently were that 88% of the country is metabolically unhealthy with at least one symptom of metabolic syndrome. We have an epidemic of obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. When someone dies of COVID & it is said that they are “healthy”, there needs to be a new definition of what “healthy” really means.
IMO, the best info on all of this can be found here:
Low Carb MD Podcast
http://www.lowcarbmd.com/
Just passed 100 episodes ... doctors, scientists, patients, etc. interviews by Dr. Brian Lenzkes & Dr. Tro Kalajian, dedicated to changing & saving lives. I am always uplifted after hearing one of their episodes.
Good thing obesity is rare in America...
Especially the fat ones. Nadler, Lofgren, Jackson Lee.
Hey Yamiche pay attention!
Waiting for comments saying people deserve to die from this Wuhanic Plague due to being obese.
3.. 2.. 1..
Body fat = inflammation.
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