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Obesity Increases The Risk Of Death From The Covid Virus
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According to the report by the World Health Organisation, no country where less than 40% of the population is overweight has covid 19 death rates above 10 per 100,000.
But if all of the persons in those countries who died from covid were underweight/normal weight – then being overweight would seem to protect against death from covid. But we don’t know the obesity rates of those that died, so no conclusion can be drawn other than countries with low obesity rates tend to have lower covid death rates (not that obesity increases the risk of death).
It is known that death rates from covid increase significantly with age, but if older people have a tendency to be overweight, this unsubstantiated conclusion could be incorrectly drawn from the data.
According to the report by the World Health Organisation, no country where less than 40% of the population is overweight has covid 19 death rates above 10 per 100,000.
But if all of the persons in those countries who died from covid were underweight/normal weight – then being overweight would seem to protect against death from covid. But we don’t know the obesity rates of those that died, so no conclusion can be drawn other than countries with low obesity rates tend to have lower covid death rates (not that obesity increases the risk of death).
It is known that death rates from covid increase significantly with age, but if older people have a tendency to be overweight, this unsubstantiated conclusion could be incorrectly drawn from the data.
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If all the people who died from covid in countries having low obesity rates were underweight/normal weight, and no persons who were obese died due to covid – then it would be incorrect to conclude obesity increases the risk of covid death.
But we don’t know the proportion of those who were obese who died in the above, so no conclusion can be drawn as to the increased risk from covid due to obesity.
But we don’t know the proportion of those who were obese who died in the above, so no conclusion can be drawn as to the increased risk from covid due to obesity.
Am not sure where your coming from or going apart from up a blind alley.
Obesity is a well known risk factor. Health professionals and health scientist's know the main factors. They dont decide this by compering our national rates with those in another country. They would look at say fit 40-50 year old here compared to obeese ones here.
Obesity is a well known risk factor. Health professionals and health scientist's know the main factors. They dont decide this by compering our national rates with those in another country. They would look at say fit 40-50 year old here compared to obeese ones here.
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