Asian in Britain will primarily be Indian/Pakistani descent.
I wonder if this is vitamin d related? Darker complexion of black and Asian could cause higher risks of vitamin d deficiency in UK.
> Asian/Asian British
> 9. Indian
> 10. Pakistani
> 11. Bangladeshi
> 12. Chinese
> 13. Any other Asian background, please describe
But the endocrine system is ferociously complex - maybe endocrine abnormalities are a proxy for obesity, or an underlying thyroid issue etc.
According to [0], vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher free testosterone in men and lower estradiol in women. Higher testosterone is associated with cardiovascular problems, which are a big COVID risk factor.
But that doesn't jib well with the study you find, so I dunno what to make of it.
0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5218632/#__ffn_...
https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/gende...
> The number of driver fatal crash involvements per 100 million miles driven in 2017 was 62 percent higher for males (2.1 per 100 million miles traveled) than for females (1.3 per 100 million miles traveled). Rates were substantially higher for males than for females ages 16-29, but were only slightly higher for ages 30 and older. The gender difference was largest among drivers ages 20-29.
So in some sense the real figure is 1.62x for men as women per mile driven, although (1) men driving more miles is still a real thing and as a result more men die, and (2) I don't know to what extent super-distance drivers (like commercial truck drivers, who skew heavily male) are putting their finger on the scale.
If you ignore teenagers, that difference comes out to 1.59x; and leaving out persons <30, 1.46x. Still much higher than 1.0.
This distinction might be important if there is some sort of vitamin-D/skin-melanin correlation to outcomes in northern latitudes.
I'd expect more it is attributable to less access to premium healthcare (remember, in the UK everyone gets healthcare, but not everyone gets privately-sponsored add-on healthcare)
"As a public health emergency, COVID-19 is being treated through the public health system."
https://www.bupa.co.uk/coronavirus/health-insurance
Not that private healthcare providers are actually providing resources to the NHS so its possible that you could end up in a private hospital even though you don't have private health insurance.
Early in the outbreak I remember seeing some research that indicated people of Asian descent (East Asian) are genetically predisposed to more severe cases of this coronavirus, something to do with higher expression of the ACE-2 receptor.
It's unclear to me (only skimmed the figures) if the various ethnic/racial hazard factors correct for poverty (deprivation) or not.
> People from Asian and black groups are at markedly increased risk of in-hospital death from COVID-19, and contrary to some prior speculation this is only partially attributable to pre-existing clinical risk factors or deprivation;
Surely the geographical relationship between dense cities and their inhabitants demographics is more than enough to explain it.
> People from Asian and black groups are at markedly increased risk of in-hospital death from COVID-19, and contrary to some prior speculation is only partially attributable to pre-existing clinical risk factors or deprivation