US researchers have linked physical inactivity to an increased likelihood of Covid leading to hospitalisation and, ultimately, death. Their study suggests that the odds for death were 2.49 times greater for patients who were consistently inactive compared with patients who were consistently active. The Telegraph has the story.
Inactive coronavirus patients are more than twice as likely to die from the disease compared to people who exercise for the recommended 150 minutes a week, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center in California, studied the medical records of nearly 50,000 people who were diagnosed with coronavirus between January and October last year.
They found that being consistently inactive more than doubled the odds of hospitalisation compared with being regularly active.
Patients who were consistently inactive were 73% more likely to be admitted to intensive care than fit patients.
The odds for death were 2.49 times greater for patients who were consistently inactive compared with patients who were consistently active.
The researchers found that inactivity was the biggest risk factor for the disease after age, and having a history of organ transplant.
Even patients who were inconsistently active had lower odds for severe Covid when compared to those who were consistently inactive, suggesting any amount of physical activity has benefit.
Dr Robert Sallis, a sports medicine physician at the medical centre that conducted this research, said that the findings should act as a “wake-up call”.
This is a wake-up call for the importance of healthy lifestyles and especially physical activity…
People who regularly exercise had the best chance of beating Covid, while people who were inactive did much worse.
Walk 30 minutes a day, five days a week at a moderate pace and that will give you a tremendous protective effect against Covid.
Around half of those studied had no underlying health conditions.
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So you’re telling me if we didn’t lock people in their homes for a year, the death toll would have been 2.5 times less?
yes!!! Exactly – don’t bloody well lock us down then
Is this true? Can a statistician/epidemiologist give their opinion?
Is the guy in the photo hiding a Superman t shirt under that disguise?
I spent all day in bed. Am I doomed?
“This is a wake-up call for the importance of healthy lifestyles and especially physical activity…”
… and abandoning the shit-show totally.
A few more lockdowns then and everyone will die of coronavirus, must be the conclusion.
In these crazy times, I shouldn’t give the Government ideas, I suppose.
Surely those who actually die of covid are predominantly people who are morbidly obese; living in care homes; have COPD, CHD etc. All of whom are living on borrowed time anyway and are hardly likely to live active lifestyles.
Talk about lies, damned lies and statistics!
Yes – third Parkinson’s Law: for every statistic there is an anti-statistic!
So shutting people in their houses was a really, really good idea, yeah.
I think they’ve thought of everything.
lockdown stock and two saggy bumcheeks
Perhaps lard arse will succumb. I’m reprogramming my voodoo doll.
What a great idea.Let’s all do it and add in Hancock.
Men with beards are sexier, says man with beard.
Himalayan salt lamps are good for you, says company who import and sell lightbulbs shoved inside a Himalayan salt rock.
Lockdowns work and save lives, say people who proposed and instigated lockdowns.
Exercise is good for you says sports medical physician.
What next, will someone tell us being lazy and morbidly obese is not that good for us?
Like that “study” a few weeks ago, which found that people who walk more slowly are more at risk.
I remember hearing about someone who got a grant for some study in May last year, who said: I can make loads of money doing some stupid studies!
This is code for the obese being far more at risk. We have known that from the outset. Quarantining the healthy population is wrong.
It’s listed in the INCARC reports. It’s always been clear obesity is correlated. But sure, that probably won’t go away.
https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports
Very strange then that I know of only 11 people who have actually had c19 and the two who ended up in hospital were men in their 30s and both fitness fanatics.
Its quite amazing how they can link Covid to anything
Nothing to do with BMI then, and the fact that about 80% of people ending up in intensive care “with covid” are clinically overweight or obese…
I wonder what would have been the outcome if people had been “frightened” into losing weight rather than wearing masks, socially distancing, staying home and keeping apart from friends, family and colleagues, and getting vaccinated.
Russell Brand on a bit of a roll.
Wide ranging discussion in response to viewers very good comments and questions.
10k+ views per hour, must be doing something right.
Re: obesity and inactivity – they’re not actually the same. It’s not being obese that’s the risk per se. It’s the medication they put you on to treat other conditions of which obesity is a symptom that are the issue.
Insulin Resistance is a huge issue. It causes obesity, but isn’t caused by obesity, hence those energetic fatties who never change but are clearly not IR. But once you are IR, you are treated as per-diabetic and put on a raft of medications, (hormonal if you’re female), and those cause weight gain. If your blood sugars are a bit high, you’re put on insulin, which is the last thing you need. But NHS care us now so shit the only aim is to stop you dying. This also applies to the over-prescription of anti-depressants and thyroid medication.
If you’re needing contraceptive treatment, progesterone only pills and implants, make you insulin resistant even if you weren’t before, and cause cysts on some women’s ovaries, which can shut down menstruation and result in obesity. Then you are put on medication for pre-diabetes.
Depression, anxiety – anti-depresssnts and beta-blockers cause weight gain.
Antibiotics are used in meat production all over the world to kill off gut flora, which results in rapid weight gain. This happens in humans too.
But there is an entire industry built around destroying self-esteem of the fat, and treating conditions induced by pharmaceutical interventions with more pharmaceutical drugs.
Very few medication-free adults arrived in hospitals let alone ICUs, with SARS-Cov2 regardless of weight. The reason that weight is being cited is that very few obese people are medication-free and many of them are insulin resistant and in an inflammatory state BECAUSE of the medication they’ve been put on.
And there is ZERO proper, philanthropic help for the obese to make lifestyle changes. It’s a vicious cycle, and it’s highly lucrative that it continues.
Over prescription of thyroid meds ? Am wondering how that conclusion is reached ? My experience is different in that due to poor and inadequate testing many are denied treatment.
A thyroid med I was prescribed in Greece cost around €1.30 – same one in UK costs £250 – so banned by most CCG’s.
Most Doctors are not interested in auto-immunity and have no idea how to treat. It is the biggest cause of thyroid conditions globally. I have also read about v@xxines being linked to auto-immune conditions …. and so the world keeps turning ….
Agree it’s the insulin levels/insulin resistance that are the problem. Disagree about thyroid meds though, hypothyroid is woefully undertreated
The biggest problem (pun intended) is that the diet the obese are put on is exactly the same diet that made them fat in the first place. Diabetics too
No doubt the government will say they new about this all along, hence we have always been allowed to leave home for essential exercise. Obviously what they ignored is the fact that a large percentage of people normally exercise by going to the gym, playing sport etc. all of wich were restricted for long periods of time. It takes a lot more motivation to go for a run/walk on your own on a cold wet winter evening compared to meeting up with mates at a leisure centre or even outdoor football training.
Overweight people live longer and have better recovery from surgery/ other encounters with our healthcare system than those of ideal weight or those who are clinically obese.
Its been known for years that the goalposts defining BMI groups have been moved so much, many of the categories are completely wrong.
If you are “Overweight” and are likely to live longer then those defined as normal weight – guess what – you aren’t Overweight.
We need to be aware of the White Coat Supremacists habit of deliberately confusing and conflating to pursue their agenda.