Every story and comment from the Hacker News API, in a layout borrowed from 2001.
A comment on Most Covid-19 hospitalizations due to four conditions. Parent comment
The real COVID-19 risk isn't from BMI or even obesity in general, but specifically from excess visceral fat.
https://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(20)3030...
However measuring visceral fat is slow and expensive since it requires something like a DXA scan. We don't have enough equipment to scan everyone. So we usually rely on BMI as a proxy.
There are no comments on this comment yet.
The real COVID-19 risk isn't from BMI or even obesity in general, but specifically from excess visceral fat.
https://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(20)3030...
However measuring visceral fat is slow and expensive since it requires something like a DXA scan. We don't have enough equipment to scan everyone. So we usually rely on BMI as a proxy.