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In the largest-ever study of coronavirus cases outside China, 26% of patients died. Their symptoms came in 'clusters.'
Obesity could make coronavirus patients more vulnerable to severe illness, and symptoms may appear in clusters.
In the largest study to date of coronavirus patients outside China, published Friday in the medical journal the BMJ, researchers analyzed data from 20,133 patients hospitalized across the UK.
The study identified four major risk factors that can make a person more susceptible to severe illness or death from COVID-19: age, male sex, obesity, and underlying conditions affecting the heart, lungs, kidney, or liver.
(The study refers to those who were hospitalized in the UK, we think 5% of those who get wind up in the hospital, so this would be slightly more than 1% of those who get it)
In the largest-ever study of coronavirus cases outside China, 26% of patients died. Their symptoms came in 'clusters.'
Obesity could make coronavirus patients more vulnerable to severe illness, and symptoms may appear in clusters.
In the largest study to date of coronavirus patients outside China, published Friday in the medical journal the BMJ, researchers analyzed data from 20,133 patients hospitalized across the UK.
The study identified four major risk factors that can make a person more susceptible to severe illness or death from COVID-19: age, male sex, obesity, and underlying conditions affecting the heart, lungs, kidney, or liver.
(The study refers to those who were hospitalized in the UK, we think 5% of those who get wind up in the hospital, so this would be slightly more than 1% of those who get it)
In the largest-ever study of coronavirus cases outside China, 26% of patients died. Their symptoms came in 'clusters.'
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