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I get that there can be confounders on how you interpret it, but nothing about this statement seems improper or incorrect: "In America obesity is overrepresente
by peteradio 5y ago
I get that there can be confounders on how you interpret it, but nothing about this statement seems improper or incorrect: "In America obesity is overrepresented in teenagers hospitalized with Covid-19."
- dekhn 5y agoif the study was done in a population that is elevated in obesity (for example in the south) then you wouldn't be able to generalize it to the national population.
- fer 5y agoWhile true that one can't say for sure, the link you provided gives a 95% CI that's still pretty close to 40%. I'd wager the chance of randomly picking 6 hospitals whose obesity rate way further than 4-5 sigma away the mean would be pretty damn small.