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Thought I'd share this research on risk factors, given its of concern to a number of us

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zoombapup said:
I saw this today and thought I'd link everyone.

OpenSAFELY: Press release: Risk factors for COVID-19 death revealed in world’s largest analysis of patient records to date

Largest study to date, analysing NHS health data from 17.4 million UK adults between 01 February 2020 and 25 April 2020, has given the strongest …
opensafely.org opensafely.org

A large scale study of risk factors in Covid.
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I posted on that the other day. My attitude: wait until it's been scrutinised by experts a bit before taking it too much on board. There are some weird-looking results: eg being a current a smoker reduces risk, having high blood pressure reduces it a bit. Obviously really interesting if true, but the BP one contradicts other studies and the smoking one just seems strange ...
 
Eddy Edson said:
I posted on that the other day. My attitude: wait until it's been scrutinised by experts a bit before taking it too much on board. There are some weird-looking results: eg being a current a smoker reduces risk, having high blood pressure reduces it a bit. Obviously really interesting if true, but the BP one contradicts other studies and the smoking one just seems strange ...
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Ah Sorry Eddy, didn't see it. Haven't been hitting the forums so much as I'm currently only monitoring and my diet is so restricted that I've not really got a lot to test food wise. Thanks for posting it then. I think you're right that we need it with more scrutiny, but this is a study by a reasonably expert group using actual data from the NHS so I should think the data itself is reasonably reliable, even if any analysis at this stage isn't. So its likely that the data results are true, but maybe the explanations aren't there yet. Stuff like a particular data point being linked to something but in fact its caused by something else entirely. Lots of that going round in medical science right now I'm sure.

Still, I'm glad they're making the effort as I think insights could come from it.
 
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