Pick up the pace! Slow walkers four times more likely to die from COVID-19, study finds

[Ms. Toad]

33. 30% is not "pretty high odds" so it was not accurate as a whole.

Which is precisely my point. The assumption that obesity means the presence of certain disdases - or that obesity means that no other medical cause exists for symptoms both lead to inadequate medical care.

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Risk of misdiagnosis, health-related quality of life, and BMI in patients who are overweight with doctor-diagnosed asthma

I read their stories as they came in—frank and heartbreaking tales, too often told by loved ones who survived the fat people they’d lost to misdiagnosis. Cancer, multiple sclerosis, thyroid conditions. And every time, the doctor’s recommendation was the same: “Just lose weight.”

https://medium.com/s/story/the-bias-epidemic-8f27e79bd21c

That happened to a patient who eventually went to see Dr. Scott Kahan, an obesity specialist at Georgetown University. The patient, a 46-year-old woman, suddenly found it almost impossible to walk from her bedroom to her kitchen. Those few steps left her gasping for breath. Frightened, she went to a local urgent care center, where the doctor said she had a lot of weight pressing on her lungs. The only thing wrong with her, the doctor said, was that she was fat.

“I started to cry,” said the woman, who asked not to be named to protect her privacy. “I said: ‘I don’t have a sudden weight pressing on my lungs. I’m really scared. I’m not able to breathe.’”

“That’s the problem with obesity,” she said the doctor told her. “Have you ever considered going on a diet?”

It turned out that the woman had several small blood clots in her lungs, a life-threatening condition, Dr. Kahan said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/26/health/obese-patients-health-care.html

When she was 17, Hiles developed bronchitis and walking pneumonia, which turned into daily coughing attacks. "Doctors said, 'If you lost weight, you wouldn't have this many coughing fits,'" she recalled.

"I was very active, but I wasn't losing weight and my breathing was just getting worse," she explained, noting she danced and was naturally active on campus. "Any time I went to see the doctor to figure out why I couldn't shake this cold or that cold, I was given an antibiotic and told to lose weight."

Her coughing fits became so severe she was unable to control her bladder and had to resort to wearing adult diapers. In addition, the coughing often resulted in vomiting. And still, doctors responded with, "We don't know what to tell you — it's clearly just weight-related."

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Hiles was 23 when her new primary care physician suggested she see another kind of doctor. . . But before she could see the pulmonologist, Hiles had another bloody coughing fit, which landed her in the ER and ultimately led doctors to find a tumor in her bronchial tube. Hiles was forced to have surgery to remove her entire left lung, which was black and rotting with dead tissue.

Fat people aren't shocked a doctor diagnosed a woman with cancer as 'just fat'

These are examples of the phenomenon that form the basis of the subthread I started.