, hypertension is the most common underlying medical condition in adults hospitalized for COVID-19. Almost 60 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had the condition as of April 18, as opposed to and e it - diagnosed or not.
Obese patients also seem to be slightly overrepresented among hospitalized sufferers of COVID-19. Surprisingly, those suffering from chronic lung disease or asthma were also only somewhat overrepresented among patients, while cardiovascular disease was exhibited by 32 percent of adult coronavirus patients in U.S. hospitals, even though only 12 percent of U.S. adults have been diagnosed with the disease.
