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FT too, within a roundup of

artappraiser — Thu, 07 May 2020 08:18:38 +0000

FT too, within a roundup of symptoms

Free to Read: Covid-19 is throwing up a fiendish variety of symptoms, including blood clots, strokes and digestive problems, that are confounding the scientific community https://t.co/y1QNSOeBBI pic.twitter.com/vmuskI1NyB
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) May 7, 2020

More on obesity from UK

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 07 May 2020 06:34:40 +0000

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Note the word "Investigating"

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 04 May 2020 14:10:20 +0000

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Note the word "Investigating" rather than "Concluded". But thanks for quoting the article back to us - we were having trouble reading.

From the article

rmrd0000 — Mon, 04 May 2020 13:45:53 +0000

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From the article

Sources familiar with SAGE’s work stressed to BuzzFeed News that there was currently not sufficient evidence to prove that obesity itself resulted in increased mortality, and that more research needed to be done. They said that severely obese people are often likely to have other co-morbidities that could be responsible for any worse symptoms.

Older people, men, black and Asian people, and those from socially deprived backgrounds were also seeing worse outcomes, the ICNARC data showed.

It appears other factors are also in play in the UK. Looking at race helps target prevention efforts

Ross Warwick, a research economist at IFS and co-author of the report said: “When you account for the fact that most minority groups are relatively young overall, the number of deaths looks disproportionate in most ethnic minority groups. There is unlikely to be a single explanation here and different factors may be more important for different groups. For instance, while black Africans are particularly likely to be employed in key worker roles which might put them at risk, older Bangladeshis appear vulnerable on the basis of underlying health conditions.”

Accounting for differences in age, sex and geography, the IFS found deaths of British black Africans background to be 3.5 times those of the white British population and British Pakistani deaths to be 2.7 times as high.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/british-bame-covid-19-death-rate-more-than-twice-that-of-whites

& air pollution link?

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 04 May 2020 12:53:40 +0000

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& air pollution link?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/is-air-pollution-making-th...