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<blockquote data-quote="Max68" data-source="post: 2368400" data-attributes="member: 521172"><p>Very much agreed. There are no statistics that help us at all to determine our risk. As you say there is a lot of us and even more probably undiagnosed. This is what intrigues me, how many who have become seriously unwell with Covid and have underlying conditions had "undiagnosed" underlying conditions compared to those who had diagnosed and medicated conditions? Diabetes and Heart Disease especially can easily go unnoticed certainly early doors if you don't go to the GP regularly and I suspect in many cases diagnosis has been stumbled upon.</p><p></p><p>Plus certain factors are unknown. I read recently that metformin has a benefit with Covid, although I don't know how. Same with Vitamin D. So is someone with a higher HBA1c but on metformin and Vitamin D have less or more risk than someone with a lower HBA1c but not on either? If you have a higher HBA1c but no current diabetic complications does that make you better off than someone with diabetic complications?</p><p>If the cytokine storm when the immune system attacks the body is the main problem then why are immune suppressed people at risk?</p><p></p><p>Still so many unknowns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Max68, post: 2368400, member: 521172"] Very much agreed. There are no statistics that help us at all to determine our risk. As you say there is a lot of us and even more probably undiagnosed. This is what intrigues me, how many who have become seriously unwell with Covid and have underlying conditions had "undiagnosed" underlying conditions compared to those who had diagnosed and medicated conditions? Diabetes and Heart Disease especially can easily go unnoticed certainly early doors if you don't go to the GP regularly and I suspect in many cases diagnosis has been stumbled upon. Plus certain factors are unknown. I read recently that metformin has a benefit with Covid, although I don't know how. Same with Vitamin D. So is someone with a higher HBA1c but on metformin and Vitamin D have less or more risk than someone with a lower HBA1c but not on either? If you have a higher HBA1c but no current diabetic complications does that make you better off than someone with diabetic complications? If the cytokine storm when the immune system attacks the body is the main problem then why are immune suppressed people at risk? Still so many unknowns. [/QUOTE]
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