Yes. Also read the supplementary tables that describe the demographic co-variates of the study population: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.103

Yes. Also read the supplementary tables that describe the demographic co-variates of the study population: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41591-022-01689-3/MediaObjects/41591_2022_1689_MOESM1_ESM.pdf https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415... Mean age of the Covid-19 cohort: 61.42 Percent with BMI over 30: 53.84% Percent with chronic kidney disease: 19.52% Lung disease: 15.26% Diabetes: 32.13% Hyperlipidemia: 33.97% Hypertension: 26.7% Almost all of these factors are significantly elevated over the control groups, and their attempts to normalize the data (ST2) do not eliminate the problem. We're talking about tiny differences in small numbers, and their population is biased toward the sick and the old. It's already clear from the main paper that most of the signal comes from the oldest, sickest cohort, but once you know that pretty much everyone in the study was old and sick, it's clearly difficult to generalize from this. This thread is awash with 20-somethings pontificating about heart damage based on a paper about elderly veterans. Simply irresponsible reporting.