Når tykhed udnævnes til risikofaktor ift. Covid-19 bunder det i tykfobisk vanetænkning

Der er mange vigtige pointer i denne long read. Overordnet må vi igen pointere, at der endnu ikke findes noget datagrundlag, ud fra hvilket det entydigt kan konkluderes, at tykhed i sig selv er en risiko for at blive alvorligt syg af CV19. Når sundhedsmyndigheder i rigtig mange lande alligevel vælger at udnævne tykhed til en risikofaktor, bunder det i tykfobisk vanetænkning, som i sidste ende skader tykke mennesker yderligere.

Obs. o-ordet optræder i denne artikel (og desværre også overskriten).

"On average, the numbers of high-weight critically ill COVID-19 patients in the U.S. seems to be roughly the same as the numbers of high-weight people generally, implying what we already know: This virus is hurting all of us."

“Fatphobia is behind most interpretations of data regarding the coronavirus and high weight,” says Lindo Bacon, PhD, author of Health At Every Size. “Because you can’t disentangle the effect of fatness versus being a victim of fat stigma, it's dubious to attribute anything that shows up in large bodies to fatness itself.” Being at a higher weight—especially when that weight falls under the CDC’s category of severe obesity—in a fatphobic culture means facing sometimes daily discrimination: people calling you names as you walk down the street, giving you dirty looks as you try to buy groceries, or mooing at you from passing cars. “Facing the emotional trauma of weight stigma for years could put people at risk,” says Louise Metz, MD, an internal medicine physician in North Carolina. Previous research shows that facing constant discrimination like this can increase the likelihood of chronic inflammation, which is in turn linked to diseases that increase COVID-19 risk such as heart disease, cancer, asthma, and diabetes."

"With all of these factors in the background, it’s impossible to prove that high weight is an independent risk factor for complications from COVID-19, especially with the preliminary data we have now. "My view on this is that they were looking for it to be fat bodies," Harrison says of the data and the CDC’s inclusion of severe obesity in their high-risk groups. “And when you go looking for something like that, framing your research in that way, sometimes you find it.""

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