Here’s a shocker—people in poor health, the aged and the obese, are more likely to come down with severe cases of Covid-19. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
The largest study to date of US hospital admissions for COVID-19 reveals that obesity and age are the largest factors in whether a person had to be admitted to a hospital.
The study, consisting of 4,103 patient records of those who tested positive for the virus between March 1st and April 2nd, revealed that “The chronic condition with the strongest association with critical illness was obesity, with a substantially higher odds ratio than any cardiovascular or pulmonary disease,” according to Christopher M. Petrilli of NYU’s Grossman School and lead author of the paper “Factors associated with hospitalization and critical illness among 4,103 patients with Covid-19 disease in New York City,” printed April 11th on the medRxiv pre-print server, according to ZD.net, which notes that the paper has not undergone peer-review.
Obesity was defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater.
Of the 4,103 patients in the study, 1,999 required hospital admission and 650 either required intensive care, mechanical ventilation, were discharged to hospice and/or died.
“We find particularly strong associations of older age, obesity, heart failure and chronic kidney disease with hospitalization risk, with much less influence of race, smoking status, chronic pulmonary disease and other forms of heart disease.”
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