Posted on 04/23/2020 6:50:42 AM PDT by Drango
High blood pressure, obesity and diabetes are risk factors for severe cases.
People with obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure are at greater risk for complications from the coronavirus, according to a large study of patients hospitalized with the illness it causes.
The findings, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, confirm what physicians nationwide have noted anecdotally.
The study included data on 5,700 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the New York City area.
Underlying conditions were common. The researchers found that, among all patients, 57 percent had high blood pressure, 41 percent were obese and just over a third had diabetes.
The unexpected cost of coronavirus treatment APRIL 22, 202004:48 People with those chronic health problems should call their physicians if they experience new or unusual symptoms or have contact with a person diagnosed with COVID-19, said the researchers, from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health in New York.
That's "because those patients, at least from our description, are highly represented in the people who have a severe course of the disease," said Karina Davidson, senior vice president at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research.
The study wasn't designed to answer why those conditions are more common among very ill patients. However, it's well known that those diseases increase the risk for other problems, such as heart disease.
Patients in the study who had diabetes were also more likely to be placed on ventilators and develop kidney problems while in the hospital.
Researchers also found that fever wasn't a reliable warning sign of infection. Just one-third of patients had elevated temperatures when they were triaged upon arrival.
Other known symptoms of the coronavirus include cough, headache, trouble breathing, severe fatigue and loss of smell and taste. But those symptoms tend to vary from person to person. And it's unclear whether certain symptoms might serve as warning signs that a person might end up in the hospital with severe disease.
Davidson said Northwell Health is training medical students to go back and analyze patient charts for such symptoms.
"Is there any pattern of symptoms that predicts a worse outcome or predicts people are in fact going to be safe and can be managed at home?" Davidson asked.
"We think that's the burning question."
How did this story ever get past the Trump Derangement Editor at NBC News?
Keto list bump
I would imagine that underlying conditions are key to every viral/bacterial infection.
This is really nothing new.
Not a slam at you D...you are just the poster. But “unhealthy” means not healthy.
It hits obese people. It is a bio weapon aimed at us.
Temp not a reliable indicator? - that means temp scanning is not a route to opening business back up, bad news.
I’d like to see more detail on relative risk. How do the proportions with high blood pressure and COVID (severe COVID) compare with the proportions in the same age brackets for the general population, and similarly for obesity and diabetes. That information should have made it into NBC’s story.
Good question! People who take care better care of themselves are less at risk. Probably racist for sure.
A study for such an obvious conclusion would not have been required years ago, when people did not get their wisdom from movie stars.
It took a large study to figure this out?
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The best exercise ever is the easiest......
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Pushing yourself away from the dining table......
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Yup, get on keto.
True That !
But also realize that every few years the medical profession
moves the goal posts to determine what is healthy, and what is not.
The year before last years borderline blood pressure rate now becomes this years "unhealthy"
and then doctors write out scripts to big pharma ($$).
So there's that too !
I spent years getting my non-medicated A1C to 7. Then they moved to 6.
Finally my PCP told me to keep my cholesterol and BP, my BMI under 30...I would most likely be fine.
Captain Obvious apparently works at NBC.
This was a given from day one. All anyone had to do was to realize that most of the first fatalities came out of nursing homes and were aged.
Yes, symptoms seem to morph into syndromes which morph into conditions which morph into diseases.
Weight increase elevates blood pressure
Weight increase is key factor in Diabetes II and the newer pre-diabetes
Median age 63 years.0 fatalities under age 18.
Also read somewhere using an oximeter is more accurate than a thermometer before symptoms appear. Has anyone else seen that? Would be easy to implement.
Glad to hear that !
To what do you attribute your success ?
More veggies, a concerned wife, and good living ?
I would like to know if there is a difference between well managed or “out of control” diabetes and high blood pressure. Mr. Rightfield has both, but with keto, weight loss, meds, and exercise, his A1c is at 6.0, and bp around 120/70.
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