Obesity Health Impacts
The cluster discusses the prevalence of obesity in the US, its health risks including mortality and comorbidities, and debates over BMI accuracy and comparisons to issues like COVID severity.
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Same if no one was obese.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28533668
Only 40% are obese (US) so it affects a minority of the population, therefore it should be disregarded?
Are there any stats on how many of these people are obese?
You're obviously not accounting for obesity statistics.(I kid, I kid! Sort of.)
what about being obese (for the sake of argument)?
The obesity is most likely offsetting that though
Is there data that excludes obese people?
obesity causes real health issues too
Overweight (BMI 25~30) is statistically fine, even lower mortality than “normal” (18.5~25) BMI [0]> Conclusions and Relevance> Grade 1 obesity overall was not associated with higher mortality, and overweight was associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality.BMI is a vague measure in the first place, and the ranges are pretty arbitrary, but even accounting for that only the “obesity” range is related to health issues.[0] <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/
>were obese or overweight.Like 60% of America is obese or overweight, that is way over 200 Million Americans [1]. I don't understand why people try to use this to downplay (I'm not saying you are) COVID.[1]https://www.healthline.com/health/obesity-facts#1