from Hacker News

Evidence Suggests Those With Severe Covid-19 Have Same Pre-existing Ponditions

by newsreview1 on 5/8/20, 4:53 PM with 5 comments

• by wahern on 5/8/20, 6:25 PM

  > The study revealed that the median age of the hospitalized patients was 63, and that 57% of these patients had hypertension, 34% had diabetes, and 42% were obese. Interestingly, the vast majority of the patients (88%) had two or more of these co-morbidities.

  40% of Americans over age 20 (twenty!) are obese. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm

  45% of American adults have hypertension. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/facts.htm For the 55+ age group I'd bet money, without Googling, it's ~57%.

  Those aren't co-morbidities, they just reflect the population. The diabetes prevalence seems maybe ~2x higher than would be expected, however, unless the 34% figure includes pre-diabetes and borderline cases. For age distributions see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3464829/

• by Tagbert on 5/8/20, 8:48 PM

  Ponditions?