People with metabolic syndrome “three times more likely to die in Covid”

Experts have found that people with metabolic syndrome are three times more likely to die when infected with a coronavirus.

Patients with a combination of hypertension, diabetes and obesity were found to have more severe outcomes than other patients.

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According to a study at Tulane University, people suffering from conditions that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease had a higher mortality rate when they caught Covid.

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions such as obesity, high blood pressure, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, and low high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.

Experts say that the more these diagnoses, the worse the results, when infected with a coronavirus.

The researchers followed the health status of 287 patients admitted at Covid at the Tulane Medical Center and the University Medical Center in New Orleans.

They monitored these patients from March 30th to April 5th.

This was the peak of the pandemic in New Orleans.

Researchers have found that over 85% of patients are non-Hispanic blacks.

The average age was 61 years and the majority of patients were female (57%).

Almost 66% of the patients in the study had metabolic syndrome.

The most common conditions were hypertension (80%), obesity (65%), diabetes (54%) and low HDL (39%).

To make a valid comparison, researchers looked at two groups.

People with Metabolic Syndrome and People without Metabolic Syndrome

They found that 56% of patients with metabolic syndrome had to undergo intensive care for 24% who had no condition.

Of those requiring ventilator, 48% of those with metabolic syndrome needed ventilator, but only 18% of those without this condition had ventilator.

Patients with the condition and 37% of those with metabolic syndrome developed Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), compared to 11% of those without the condition.

Researchers found that 26% of patients with metabolic syndrome died-as many as 10% without status.

After considering age, hospital location, race, and gender, the researchers say that people with metabolic syndrome die 3.4 times more often than people without the condition.

Experts said they needed ventilators, had ARDS, and were five times more likely to be admitted to the ICU.

However, when only one of the metabolic syndrome and clustered states was identified, the study found no increase in mortality.

However, they said that being obese or diabetic was associated with a higher likelihood that patients would need to be ventilated or hospitalized in the ICU.

The first author, Dr. Joshua Denson, said:

“The more these diagnoses, the worse the results.”

He added that the underlying inflammation seen in metabolic syndrome may be a factor in causing these more severe cases.

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