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Countries with an overweight population tend to be also countries with an ageing population and given how dominant is how you protected your elderly in the deat
by cm2187 6y ago
Countries with an overweight population tend to be also countries with an ageing population and given how dominant is how you protected your elderly in the death rates, not sure the correlation means causation. The ICU doctors interviews I have seen suggest overweight people go to ICU but generally do not die unless it is combined with age or serious com-morbidity.
- alamortsubite 6y agoThis does seem likely, but the paper claims to have taken it into consideration: The authors acknowledged that the age structure of a country, as well as its relative wealth and reporting capacity, has an impact on covid-19 cases, hospital admissions, and deaths, but said that their findings seem to be independent of these contributory factors.
- rkk3 6y agoThe US has the highest death rate and is #36th (16%) for Aging Population (% 65+). The UK has the third highest death rate and is #24th (18.3%) for Aging Population (% 65+). https://www.prb.org/countries-with-the-oldest-populations/ https://www.prb.org/countries-with-the-oldest-populations/
- cm2187 6y agoBut it’s also a function of how well you protected your elderly