Health
CV Risk Factors Make Even Younger COVID-19 Patients More Vulnerable – TCTMD
In a population under age 35, 20% required ICU care, 10% were put on ventilators, and approximately 3% died.
Younger people with COVID-19 are less likely than those who are older to be hospitalized or need intensive care, but a new study, which set the age cutoff at 35 years, suggests that the same risk factors that portend poor outcomes in older patients pertain to younger ones as well.
Although certainly the risk of severe outcomes is lower in younger people, those risks were still significant or meaningful, with 20% having to go to the ICU, 10% requiring a breathing tube, and 2.5% to 3% dying in th…
-
Noosa News22 hours agoQueensland teachers strike for second time this year after rejecting 8 per cent wage rise
-
General22 hours agoVictorian government blocked fire service from pursuing US giant over PFAS contamination
-
Noosa News13 hours agoWest Coast Eagles draftee Josh Lindsay wants to carry on Troy Selwood’s legacy
-
General24 hours agoTrump, Xi talk on phone about trade, Taiwan and Ukraine