Overweight and Obese Americans Make up 78% of COVID-19 Hospitalization, CDC Warns

Analog_Kid

This is interesting...

"A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns that the majority of COVID-19 hospitalization, ventilators used, and deaths are dominated by overweight and obese Americans."

Source: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/30051/20210308/overweight-obese-americans-make-up-78-covid-19-hospitalization-cdc.htm

As if we needed another reason to loose weight.

steveko89

Given the baseline distribution of the population that's overweight or obese the manner in which the statistics are presented is misleading and, in my judgement, the phrasing is poor. Honestly, I'm not sure what portion of the population they expected to "dominate" covid hospitalizations and deaths when overweight and/or obese adults comprise the majority of the population.

Theoldguy1

Analog_Kid wrote: »

This is interesting...

"A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns that the majority of COVID-19 hospitalization, ventilators used, and deaths are dominated by overweight and obese Americans."

Source: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/30051/20210308/overweight-obese-americans-make-up-78-covid-19-hospitalization-cdc.htm

As if we needed another reason to loose weight.

Per the CDC almost 74% of the US population was overweight/obese in 2017/8. Has probably gone up a bit so the Covid obesity hospitalizations are pretty much in line with the general population



https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm

I do think personally that a healthy bodyweight along with other good health habits helps reduce the severity of Covid as it does with most illnesses.

nooshi713

I am an ER PA and dealt with COVID first hand. I did not see any “young and healthy” patients needing to be hospitalized. All of the ones who were younger who needed hospitalization were obese and either diabetic or hypertensive. Just my experience.

lynn_glenmont

nooshi713 wrote: »

I am an ER PA and dealt with COVID first hand. I did not see any “young and healthy” patients needing to be hospitalized. All of the ones who were younger who needed hospitalization were obese and either diabetic or hypertensive. Just my experience.

But yet, according to the CDC, which has access to data far beyond your experience, 22% of those hospitalized for COVID-19 were neither obese nor overweight.

Edited to fix typo.

nooshi713

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

nooshi713 wrote: »

I am an ER PA and dealt with COVID first hand. I did not see any “young and healthy” patients needing to be hospitalized. All of the ones who were younger who needed hospitalization were obese and either diabetic or hypertensive. Just my experience.

But yet, according to the CDC, which has access to data far beyond your experience, 22% of those hospitalized for COVID-19 were neither obese nor overweight.

Edited to fix typo.

Yeah but they probably had other comorbid conditions or were older.

neanderthin

nooshi713 wrote: »

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

nooshi713 wrote: »

I am an ER PA and dealt with COVID first hand. I did not see any “young and healthy” patients needing to be hospitalized. All of the ones who were younger who needed hospitalization were obese and either diabetic or hypertensive. Just my experience.

But yet, according to the CDC, which has access to data far beyond your experience, 22% of those hospitalized for COVID-19 were neither obese nor overweight.

Edited to fix typo.

Yeah but they probably had other comorbid conditions or were older.

Exactly. It's not about being overweight, it's how compromised or weak the immune system is and exposed to infection and being obese can have negative effect on our immune system.

Hodgy2357

It's interesting and factual but not sure how useful.

I worked on a covid ward. None of the deaths were obese and few overweight. Many were underweight.

Hodgy2357

I mean, it's just too much of an oversimplification of very complex issue.

Theoldguy1

Hodgy2357 wrote: »

It's interesting and factual but not sure how useful.

I worked on a covid ward. None of the deaths were obese and few overweight. Many were underweight.

Interesting, your sample of one is directly opposite to data reported by the CDC. Did you maybe work an an area with mostly older people who typically don't get to old age if obese?

Theo166

Promoting these stats as sensational is just fake news.

As others have pointed out, >70% of Americans are overweight/obese, so their hospitalization is only marginally higher than their representation in the population.