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> this is a HUGE percentage of the population of the world nowadays, And thus make up a sizeable amount of COVID patients. I see nothing noteworthy here. Havin
by whoopdedo 5y ago
> this is a HUGE percentage of the population of the world nowadays,
And thus make up a sizeable amount of COVID patients. I see nothing noteworthy here. Having a preexisting condition makes you suffer more when you contract an infectious disease. I'd expect the same things you said could be repeated for influenza, pneumonia, or anything else. For that matter, how much worse do obese patients fare when recovering from a broken leg? Are fractures then a disease of the metabolically dysfunctional, as you put it?
- lambdaba 5y agoWhat's noteworthy is *vascular* health is particularly important, thus chronically-elevated blood sugar which is *eminently* resolvable by lifestyle intervention, is the main culprit. So I don't follow your comment.
- tsimionescu 5y agoJumping from vascular health to blood sugar level is a non-sequitur. There are many other aspects of vascular health. And nothing is easy about a lifestyle intervention, it is in fact one of the hardest and least likely to hold kinds of medical treatment.
- lambdaba 5y agochronically-elevated blood sugar is quite probably the #1 cause of vascular problems (heck, it's highest association is with hypertension, these go hand in hand), hypertension is itself often associated with a common magnesium deficiency (stiffness is what happens when magnesium is insufficient and calcium is overexpressed, I mean this is the basic role of magnesium in the cell, "relaxing" the contraction brought on by calcium), this is schematic and a layman view but I believe basically correct