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A CDC study (from March 2020–March 2021) shows that among 4,899,447 hospitalized adults patients with COVID-19, 94.9% of them had at least 1 underlying medical condition. The most common underlying medical conditions were: essential hypertension [high blood pressure] (50.4%), disorders of lipid metabolism (49.4%), and obesity (33.0%). The strongest risk factors for death were obesity (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] = 1.30; 95% CI, 1.27–1.33), anxiety and fear-related disorders (aRR = 1.28; 95% CI, 1.25–1.31), and diabetes with complication (aRR = 1.26; 95% CI, 1.24–1.28), as well as the total number of conditions, with aRRs of death ranging from 1.53 (95% CI, 1.41–1.67) for patients with 1 condition to 3.82 (95% CI, 3.45–4.23) for patients with more than 10 conditions (compared with patients with no conditions).
Does this leave those of us who have no underlying medical conditions at lower risk?
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