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Obesity - dabigv13 - 04-16-2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-obesity-higher-risk.html

Double the rate of hospitalization and ICU admission in patients under 60. Worse when morbidly obese. This fits the anecdotal data I have as well. Our service was consulted for a tracheostomy on an obese patient in their 20s today.

The US population 42% obese...not good.

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RE: Obesity - M T - 04-17-2020

60% higher chance if you're male.

Some numbers out of that study that they don't spell out:

They don't give the hospitalization by age group.  We have a lower bound for that for those that the outcome was reached.
Tested: 7719; Tested positive: 4103;  Hospitalized: 1,999;  Outcome Reached: 1582

Hospitalized & Outcome reached / tested positive
0-18:  28/53 = 53%
19-44:  267/1501 = 18%
45-54:  248/694 = 36%
55-64:  328/767 = 43%
65-74:  343/577 = 59%
75+:   368/511 = 72%

I sure wish the study had given us Hospitalization, ICU, and Deaths+Hospice per age group.

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