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<blockquote data-quote="Dark Horse" data-source="post: 2257048" data-attributes="member: 52527"><p>The presenter hinted as the reason for this when he considered pregnant women. He noted that although 6% of admissions of women of child-bearing age were pregnant, that is the normal percentage of women in that age group who are pregnant. From that, we conclude that pregnancy does not increase risk of admission for Covid-19.</p><p></p><p>For uncomplicated versus complicated diabetes, we would need to compare the percentage of those admitted in each of those groups to the percentages in the general population. Everyone starts their diabetic journey with no complications and it generally takes years for them to appear. Death-rate increases with age so some of those people with complications will die and be replaced in the 'diabetic population' by newly-diagnosed people with diabetes who have no complications. The population of people with diabetes who have uncomplicated diabetes is therefore larger than the population of people who have complicated diabetes. </p><p></p><p>Even if the presence of complications had no effect on admission rate, you would still expect a bigger percentage of people with uncomplicated diabetes to be admitted for Covid-19 just because there are more of them. To unpick the effect of complications, you need to know the prevalence of complications in the population of people with diabetes and see if the proportion is higher amongst hospital admissions for Covid-19. For example,if only one-third of people with diabetes have complicated diabetes, you would expect twice as many people with uncomplicated diabetes to be admitted as people with complicated diabetes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dark Horse, post: 2257048, member: 52527"] The presenter hinted as the reason for this when he considered pregnant women. He noted that although 6% of admissions of women of child-bearing age were pregnant, that is the normal percentage of women in that age group who are pregnant. From that, we conclude that pregnancy does not increase risk of admission for Covid-19. For uncomplicated versus complicated diabetes, we would need to compare the percentage of those admitted in each of those groups to the percentages in the general population. Everyone starts their diabetic journey with no complications and it generally takes years for them to appear. Death-rate increases with age so some of those people with complications will die and be replaced in the 'diabetic population' by newly-diagnosed people with diabetes who have no complications. The population of people with diabetes who have uncomplicated diabetes is therefore larger than the population of people who have complicated diabetes. Even if the presence of complications had no effect on admission rate, you would still expect a bigger percentage of people with uncomplicated diabetes to be admitted for Covid-19 just because there are more of them. To unpick the effect of complications, you need to know the prevalence of complications in the population of people with diabetes and see if the proportion is higher amongst hospital admissions for Covid-19. For example,if only one-third of people with diabetes have complicated diabetes, you would expect twice as many people with uncomplicated diabetes to be admitted as people with complicated diabetes. [/QUOTE]
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