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Obesity increases risk for coronavirus complications: report
NY Post ^
| March 26 2020
| Jackie Salo
Posted on 04/01/2020 9:53:49 PM PDT by rintintin
Coronavirus patients who are obese are reportedly at higher risk of becoming critically ill with the disease.
Dr. Stefan de Hert, a former president of the European Society of Anaesthesiology, determined that obesity was one of the more common risk factors among patients admitted to the intensive care units in Italy, Metro UK reported.
“The mean age of all COVID-19 patients is 70 years, and one of the major risk factors for admission to intensive care is obesity,” he told the outlet.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; obesity
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To: ktw
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04/01/2020 11:46:09 PM PDT
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rintintin
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To: rintintin
Fat chance of THAT happening.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:49:03 AM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Under construction)
To: rintintin
Hence the term “morbid obesity”.
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posted on
04/02/2020 1:53:39 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
("We're not going to make America great again. It was never that great." Andrew Cuomo)
To: rintintin
What about AIDS? Will the media report on that rusk factor?
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04/02/2020 4:19:02 AM PDT
by
MulberryDraw
(You can vote your way into Communism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
To: Callahan
I know plenty who walk around 30-50lbs overweight and don’t think of themselves as obese because they’re comparing themselves to utter landwhales instead of fit people. I know a woman who is at least 100 pounds overweight and she calls herself "chubby".
To: Callahan
Dying is a lifestyle change....I knew I shouldn’t been obese...but that whole pizza was so delicious...kerplunk...oh...never mind.
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04/02/2020 5:50:38 AM PDT
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Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: DannyTN
We need more humor like this on FR!
LOL
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04/02/2020 7:15:35 AM PDT
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Zathras
To: Zathras
It’s been a really tough month for humor.
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04/02/2020 8:10:55 AM PDT
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DannyTN
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