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This is comparing the risk of death for people who are hospitalized to the risk for their age group, which is missing the major confounding factor that those wh
by jdminhbg 5y ago
This is comparing the risk of death for people who are hospitalized to the risk for their age group, which is missing the major confounding factor that those who are hospitalized for Covid (especially in younger cohorts) are very disproportionately sick (from diabetes, obesity, immune issues from transplants, etc).
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoThere's no evidence that Covid infects diabetics (or other "unhealthy" people) at a higher rate. Hospitalizes them, sure. The negative group should've had a correct proportion of "unhealthy" people. Again - even if it is only increasing chance of death in "unhealthy" people... It's still increasing chance of death!
- jdminhbg 5y ago> Hospitalizes them, sure. Re-read the citation, it's specifically looking at hospitalization.
- MathCodeLove 5y agoWhy do you keep putting quotes around "unhealthy"? If someone has diabetes they are, by definition, unhealthy.
- nostrademons 5y agoFrom the linked article: "The 12-month risk of mortality was assessed in unadjusted Cox regressions and those adjusted for age, sex, race and comorbidities." They controlled for comorbidities.
- btown 5y agoSpecifically, they use the Charlson Comorbidity Index: https://www.mdcalc.com/charlson-comorbidity-index-cci https://www.mdcalc.com/charlson-comorbidity-index-cci https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3818341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3818341/ - a peer-reviewed proof demonstrating how comorbidity indices are effective