What is an underlying condition?
May. 21st, 2009 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petmoosieIf over 50% of the population are obese (alright that's both overweight and obese), is it an underlying condition? I doubt that every obese person in the US gets a flu vaccine every year.
It seems that being overweight is a risk factor for fatal outcomes with the H1N1 flu. Whether this is due to underlying asthma (or sleep apnea) is hard to say. But certainly, there are plenty of overweight people without asthma.
It seems that being overweight is a risk factor for fatal outcomes with the H1N1 flu. Whether this is due to underlying asthma (or sleep apnea) is hard to say. But certainly, there are plenty of overweight people without asthma.
