COVID-19: The top seven diseases that put you at risk – Regina Leader-Post

ThePublic Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has identified older people, individuals with a weaker immune system and people with certain pre-existing health conditions as being more at risk of developing complications from COVID-19. But actually, there are a specific few that are more dangerous than others.

While you may assume conditions involving airways think asthma and organs that help us breathe, like lungs think Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD), a progressive lung disease would be at the top of the risk list, it turns out that these dont even make the top five. Instead, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, dementia and atrial fibrillation a heart condition are emerging as the most common reasons people get really sick, and possibly die, from COVID-19.

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According toPHAC, Canadians aged under 50 account for approximately one-half of all reported COVID-19 cases in Canada. Among Canadians aged 18 to 49, five per cent reported having high blood pressure and two per cent reported having diabetes.

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