A new study has shown that the majority of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in the United States can be attributed to four preexisting cardiometabolic conditions.

Out of 906,849 COVID-19 hospitalizations seen among US adults as of November 2020, obesity accounted for 30% of them, hypertension accounted for 26%, diabetes for 21%, and heart failure accounted for 12% of the hospitalizations. It is estimated that around 63.5% of the hospitalizations were associated with these cardiometabolic conditions. Investigators stated that these hospitalizations would have been preventable if these conditions were not present in the first place. Investigators further estimated that a reduction of 10% in these cardiometabolic conditions would have prevented 11.1% of the hospitalizations due to COVID… (Medscape)