The youth-33% of young adults also affect the risk of serious Covid 19 infection

The youth-33% of young adults also affect the risk of serious Covid 19 infection

Since the number of young adults infected with the corona virus is increasing, a new study by researchers from UCSF Benioff Kinderkrankenhäuser shows that young people may not be protected from serious illnesses.

The study examined data from a representative sample of around 8,400 men and women between the ages of 18 and 25

The study examined data from a representative sample of around 8,400 men and women between the ages of 18 and 25 and came to the conclusion that “medical susceptibility” was 33 percent in men and 30 percent in women. The effects of smoking exceeded other less frequent risks, reported the UCSF researchers in their study, which was published on July 13th in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Data from the US Centers for the Control and Prevention of Diseases (CDC) that are not included in the UCSF study show that patients over 65 are hospitalized more often than younger people, but the gap decreases. In the week until April 18, there were 8.7 hospital atmosphere per 100,000 inhabitants in the age group of 18 to 29 year olds, compared to 128.3 per 100,000 inhabitants over 65 years. In the week to June 27, it was 34.7 and 306.7, which corresponds to an increase in hospital admissions for young adults by almost 300% compared to an increase in hospital admissions for older adults.

The researchers from the UCSF department for adolescent medicine determined the vulnerability based on the indicators identified by the CDC. This included heart diseases, diabetes, asthma, immune diseases (such as lupus, gout, rheumatoid arthritis), liver diseases, obesity and smoking within the last 30 days. In addition, the researchers added e-cigarettes to the tobacco and cigar consumption that the CDC had recorded and found that all three were associated with disadvantageous effects on breathing and immune function.

There is no data on the relative effects of the individual CDC risk factors available

Since there was no data on the relative effects of the individual CDC risk factors, the researchers used an estimate of the medical susceptibility in which at least one of the indicators were used as a result variable, and not a cumulative assessment of the indicators. The susceptibility was evaluated based on each indicator, so that, for example, 100 percent were susceptible to smokers for heavy covid-19.

The most remarkable among their results was that the medical susceptibility to 6,741 non -smokers was 16.1 percent, compared to 31.5 percent in the full sample of 8,405 young adults, including smokers.

smoking in connection with the progress of Covid-19

"Recent findings indicate that smoking is more likely to be associated with a greater probability of the progress of Covid-19, including an increased severity of the disease, the intensive care unit or death," said Adams. "Smoking can have a significant impact on young adults who usually have low rates for most chronic diseases."

recent research results also show that young adults smoke more often than young people, which is a reversal of earlier trends.

The study that used data from the National Health Interview Survey showed that 10.9 percent had smoked a cigarette in the past 30 days, had smoked 4.5 percent a cigar product and had smoked 7.2 percent. The number of smokers - 1,664 or 19.8 percent - was higher than the number of people with asthma (8.6 percent), obesity (3 percent) and immune diseases (2.4 percent). In addition, 1.2 percent of diabetes, 0.6 percent had a liver disease and 0.5 percent a heart disease.

"The risk of being medically susceptible to serious illnesses is halved when smokers are removed from the test," said the senior author Charles Irwin Jr., MD, from the UCSF department for youth and adolescent medicine. "Efforts to reduce smoking and using e-cigarettes in young adults would probably reduce their susceptibility to serious diseases."

gender -specific differences in five susceptibility indicators

gender -specific differences were found in five susceptibility indicators. Women were more likely to have asthma (10 percent compared to 7.3 percent), were obese (3.3 percent compared to 2.6 percent) and had immune diseases (3.2 percent compared to 1.6 percent). But significantly fewer young women smoked, which led to a medical susceptibility of 29.7 percent compared to 33.3 percent in young men.