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Copied from a news article:
Doctors have said that there are a number of reasons why obese patients are more likely to catch the virus.
Being obese can affect the body's immune system and increase inflammation, meaning the immune system finds its harder to also fight against the effects of coronavirus at the same time.
Patients with excess weight have more weight on their diaphragm as well, putting pressure on the lungs and making it harder to breathe and therefore starving them of oxygen.
In addition, clogged up arteries can also make it harder for blood carrying immune cells to circulate and travel to fight infection around the body.
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Wherever you look online the figures are clear.
The majority are obese.
A lot of the beds in hospitals have weighing scales on them but obese is obese.
You can look at someone as see they're unhealthy by the amount and placement of fat they have on them.
I am terrified for my mum. I don’t care about catching it myself, I’m young, fit and healthy. But she has a severe respiratory illness and obesity
The hospital I work at have stopped ALL visitors this evening.
Sorry to hear that. Hopefully if you follow the social distancing and hand washing and your Mum stays indoors, she will stay safe.
Who have other issues caused by the high bmi - high blood Pressure. Spoke to my gp about this as I am slightly overweight and I’ve been reassured that it is people with other issues caused by the high bmi. Surely then smokers are high risk as their lungs clearly are not healthy? But they aren’t listed in the high risk. Sorry I eye roll at all the stuff with weight and bmi. Someone could be the same weight as me but because they are tall their bmi is much lower it drives me mad lol
I was reading an article about this.
Its something to do with the virus leading to pneumonia, the lungs fill with fluid and get inflamed. The body pumps extra blood and fluid to the inflamed area so the lungs go into a cytokine storm and the lungs are effectively drowning and other organs then begin to shut down.
But I dont know if that's all coronavirus cases or just a general idea?
Why hasn't the l gov site updated yet I wonder
Completely agree about BMI and its not always an accurate measurement.
However, overweight and carrying dangerous body fat, that extra pressure on your chest and lungs, with or without additional health concerns, it's dangerous.
Smoking of course, common sense. Hence why a few states in America are banning the sales of tobacco and cigarettes during lockdown.
Or trying to at least.
She’s not though, she keeps going to the shop!!
ALL? I saw this posted from a hospital in the area where some of my family members live:
To protect our patients, visitors and staff patient visiting has been suspended on all our hospital sites.
Visiting will only be permitted in the following circumstances:
- For patients who are receiving end-of-life care (one visitor per patient)
- For birthing partners in maternity units (one birthing partner per woman in labour)
- For parents or legal guardians in the children’s unit (one parent or legal guardian)
- For parents in the neonatal unit (two parents)
After reading that article, I'm more terrified then I was before. Sadly I'm overweight so seeing that has made me tear up.Latest | Bariatric News
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Wherever you look online the figures are clear.
The majority are obese.
A lot of the beds in hospitals have weighing scales on them but obese is obese.
You can look at someone as see they're unhealthy by the amount and placement of fat they have on them.
Bloody hell! I have the same trouble with my Mum who is in her 80's. She still thinks she's OK to go to the shops no matter how much we tell her to stay in.
and the fact that he is an incapable leader is worsened by the fact that so many people in the states have no medical care and there is little welfare provisionso people are often unwilling/unable to not go to work even when ill.. i can only imagine how much worse thesituation in europe would have been without our (albeit often underfunded) public health systems
I wonder if they had an underlying problem that wasn’t known to them.
omg.. me too
Probably busy today sorting out all the volunteers. They will need to do DBS checks on them and set that scheme up so they can start it urgently.
Ahh that wasn't the intention, sorry if it upset you.
It's so important to try and be as healthy as you can though.
It's never to late to adapt a healthy lifestyle and as long as you're staying inside and washing your hands I'm sure you'll be absolutely fine.
Just take care of yourself.
2 years ago I was rushed into hospital with sepsis. And I remember being in resus and them having a calculate my BMI. Could never understand why.
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