74-year-old male with grade 1 obesity

Age, gender, and weight are of concern to the President of the United States.

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows confirms that President Donald Trump has mild symptoms of covid-19 after testing positive for coronavirus. Various outlets are now competing to calculate the president’s risk of becoming seriously ill and possibly dying from covid-19.

On Friday night Norwegian time, The New York Times reports that two sources close to the president describe Trump as having a fever, airway congestion and a cough. CNN also reports that Donald Trump has a fever.

Risk factor: age

The president is 74 years old. CNN health reporter Dr. Sanjay Gupta said Friday morning that people between the ages of 65 and 74 are five times more likely to be hospitalized than young adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Diseases of the USA

The risk of death is 90 times higher.

English The Telegraph writes that 21 percent of those who have died from COVID-19 in the United States have been in the age segment of 64 to 74 years.

The Financial Times also sheds light on the age of the president: in this age group, 20 percent of those infected require hospitalization.

People in their 70s also have a 5 percent risk of dying when infected, according to experts according to the newspaper. This figure applies in countries with a well-functioning health care system. The president of the United States has access to pending aid.

Risk factor: gender

Older men are also twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than older women, a Chinese study shows, according to The New York Times. This is because men have a weaker immune response than women.

However, there are many men his age who have few symptoms, despite various risk factors, according to medical experts interviewed by the newspaper.

Risk factor: obesity

As is well known, obesity is also a risk factor. And with a body mass index (BMI) of 30.5 at the last checkup, you’ve just barely crossed the line from being overweight to being obese. Obesity increases the risk of hospitalization, according to the US Center for Disease Control (CDC).

The odds are still in the president’s favor, Gupta said: – There is a 90-95 percent chance he will beat this, he said on the television broadcast. New day.

Benefit: No known chronic diseases.

But according to CNN, it is not known if there are other health conditions that place him in a high-risk group.

According to the latest annual physical, nothing indicates that you have cancer, kidney disease, diabetes, or other chronic diseases.

A CT scan of the heart in 2018 should have indicated that you have some plaque in recent years and that it has gradually built up in recent years.

You have had a somewhat increased level of “bad” LDL cholesterol, despite taking cholesterol-lowering medications.

“If you don’t have diabetes, high blood pressure, or another chronic disease, you’re unlikely to get seriously ill,” David Hui, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong, told The New York Times.

Both President Trump and White House spokesmen and his doctor have said in recent months that the president is in good health.

Fox News is also optimistic: Dr. Marty Makary, who talks about medical issues on the channel, estimates that there is a 99 percent chance that Donald Trump is completely healthy without any treatment.

But the president loves cheeseburgers and apparently doesn’t train much, other than playing golf.

Medical experts agree that next week will be critical in predicting the course of the president’s illness.