Difficult Covid 19 course: It can also affect young people
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Even if older and pre-ill people tend to Coronavirus risk group count: Young people are neither protected from infection nor from a severe course. Analyzes by the US epidemic protection agency CDC show: The number of young people who are admitted to hospital with a severe Covid 19 course continues to rise. The number has even tripled since mid-April!
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Every third young adult could be at risk
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As the evaluation of the CDC shows, until mid-April there were only 8.7 hospitalizations per 100,000 inhabitants, but this number rose to 37.8 per 100,000 inhabitants by the beginning of July. Researchers from the University of California also found in a new study that one in three young adults is at risk of severe disease due to certain risk factors. In addition to diabetes, asthma, obesity, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases, a particularly unhealthy habit was the greatest risk factor …
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Main risk factor: smoking
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Even if one at the beginning of May Study caused a stir, suggesting that nicotine might help fight coronavirus infection: Smoking does not protect against a severe course of the disease – not even when the sick are still young. This is also confirmed by the results of the new US study published in the “Journal of Adolescent Health”. In it, the University of California scientists examined 8,400 young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 to find out which factors could favor severe Covid 19 courses. And above all, smoking turned out to be one of THE big risk factors for young people. In the case of young non-smokers, on the other hand, the risk of a severe course is halved, in contrast to their smoking peers!
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