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Are they common? The examples are largely given without context including the general rate of this condition in similar populations. Is this cherrypicked data,

Are they common? The examples are largely given without context including the general rate of this condition in similar populations. Is this cherrypicked data, or real? Who knows... Edit: If I missed the relevant information, could someone please point me to it? Edit: I don’t mind downvotes, but I’m curious about what’s drawing them.

justboxing 9y ago
Not sure why you are getting down-voted. The article doesn't refer to any data that could give an insight into how common Lung collapses are. > I reached out to three medical professionals in hopes of finding out whether there was, however improbable it might sound, a connection between esports and collapsed lungs. and > Without hard data, though, Bunney was hesitant to draw a correlation It looks like the author just spoke to 3 med professionals, 1 of who is quoted as saying there is no hard data.
tlunter 9y ago
Oddly, as the article noted in a single line, they're common among tall, skinny men. I've had three lung collapses so far, but all do to Birt-Hogg-Dube [1]. When I was being checked out in the hospital each time, the nurses/hospital staff all said, "ah, yea, tall and skinny". In reality, you can live through a lung collapse and do nothing. The doctor will take an x-ray, make sure the pocket of air outside the lung is shrinking and send you home. If it's fully collapsed, you'll get some surgery to repair it and a tube to make sure nothing gets back in. It never seemed as life-threatening as the article suggests. It wasn't fun, but I also never felt like I was near death or anything. It feels like the author just found spontaneous pneumothoraxes to be interesting, and built an article around it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt%E2%80%93Hogg%E2%80%93Dub%C3%A9_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt%E2%80%93Hogg%E2%80%93Dub%...

justboxing 9y ago

Not sure why you are getting down-voted. The article doesn't refer to any data that could give an insight into how common Lung collapses are. > I reached out to three medical professionals in hopes of finding out whether there was, however improbable it might sound, a connection between esports and collapsed lungs. and > Without hard data, though, Bunney was hesitant to draw a correlation It looks like the author just spoke to 3 med professionals, 1 of who is quoted as saying there is no hard data.

tlunter 9y ago

Oddly, as the article noted in a single line, they're common among tall, skinny men. I've had three lung collapses so far, but all do to Birt-Hogg-Dube [1]. When I was being checked out in the hospital each time, the nurses/hospital staff all said, "ah, yea, tall and skinny". In reality, you can live through a lung collapse and do nothing. The doctor will take an x-ray, make sure the pocket of air outside the lung is shrinking and send you home. If it's fully collapsed, you'll get some surgery to repair it and a tube to make sure nothing gets back in. It never seemed as life-threatening as the article suggests. It wasn't fun, but I also never felt like I was near death or anything. It feels like the author just found spontaneous pneumothoraxes to be interesting, and built an article around it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt%E2%80%93Hogg%E2%80%93Dub%C3%A9_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt%E2%80%93Hogg%E2%80%93Dub%...