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Post by rgs318 on May 11, 2020 9:57:46 GMT -5
An interesting article. Thanks, lou. It does show that many are trying everything possible as they look everywhere for a response to this pandemic.
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Post by hcpride on May 11, 2020 9:58:10 GMT -5
lou Thanks. Wow. This example of a disparate impact of the disease upon males is even more dramatic than the New York State statistic I quoted: “There’s a striking difference between the number of men and women in the intensive care unit, and men are clearly doing worse,” said Dr. Sara Ghandehari, a pulmonologist and intensive care physician at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles who is the principal investigator for the progesterone study. She said 75 percent of the hospital’s intensive care patients and those on ventilators are men.
(My underline) www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/health/coronavirus-estrogen-men.html
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Post by efg72 on May 11, 2020 11:23:23 GMT -5
A random fact I did not know: (related to risk of contracting Covid) - up to 40 pct of Americans are considered obese : By 2025 numbers of those overweight or struggling with obesity in the US will be near 70% China, according to WHO, will be 70 plus percent will have both obesity and Diabetes issues We did a research paper on the direct/indirect cost of obesity to the US is 1.78 T per year- total health spend about 3.7T IHME has similar numbers A GROWING GLOBAL EPIDEMIC
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Post by Tom on May 11, 2020 12:05:16 GMT -5
They all have access as needed or requested, including staff. A neighbor, a staffer who works in the Senate. has been tested twice testing is important, but one could say only if we begin with 347 plus million tested every day Congress taking a 20% pay cut is reason enough for them to get tested as often as needed. They lead by example. Based on my observations of how Congress works, any member who voted to cut their own pay was clearly delirious with fever and would qualify for a test
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Post by HC92 on May 11, 2020 12:09:57 GMT -5
A random fact I did not know: (related to risk of contracting Covid) - up to 40 pct of Americans are considered obese : By 2025 numbers of those overweight or struggling with obesity in the US will be near 70% China, according to WHO, will be 70 plus percent will have both obesity and Diabetes issues We did a research paper on the direct/indirect cost of obesity to the US is 1.78 T per year- total health spend about 3.7T IHME has similar numbers A GROWING GLOBAL EPIDEMIC Scary. A little off topic but, when discussing diabetes, I always encourage people to distinguish between Type 1 (Juvenile) diabetes which is hereditary and not connected to obesity and Type 2 which tends to have adult onset and be linked to obesity. Two different medical issues that share a name. Type 2 is more common but there are lots of little kids out there struggling with Type 1 who will be insulin-dependent for the rest of their lives through no fault of their own.
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Post by efg72 on May 11, 2020 12:50:22 GMT -5
92- you make a very important comment about the distinction. The TYPE 1 population is about 8-10% of the total number of diabetes patients, and found mostly in children, but that is beginning to change a little. Type 2 makes up the remainder of those suffering from the disease.
While industry, Merck, Astra, Lilly, Sanofi, Novo and Pfizer do research on this disease, some of the best Type 1 work is funded by JDRF. Joslin does some, but more heavily invested in TYPE 2
The linkage between obesity, diabetes(type 2), cardio vascular, and some cancers makes these cardio metabolic diseases and certain cancers incredibly costly in terms of health outcomes, death, and quality of life. The economic impact of cardio metabolic disease continues to grow with no slowing in sight.
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Post by gks on May 11, 2020 14:02:35 GMT -5
I'm sorry I'm going to hold off on listening to any researcher and models for a while.
One they give me a popsicle headache and two very few are correct.
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Post by hc2020 on May 12, 2020 17:47:37 GMT -5
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Post by hc2020 on May 12, 2020 17:59:48 GMT -5
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Post by purplehaze on May 18, 2020 12:13:45 GMT -5
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