{"id":31407,"date":"2021-02-04T17:39:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31407"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T01:39:48","slug":"cdc-lgbt-community-at-greater-risk-of-experiencing-severe-covid-19-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31407","title":{"rendered":"CDC: LGBT community at greater risk\u00a0of experiencing severe COVID-19 symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the LGBTQ+ community are at greater risk of experiencing severe symptoms of COVID-19, according to a report released by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/orqmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntfqmtql_qhfmggswstmfmwvhwdmh.html?a=&amp;b=36661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/orqmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntfqmtql_qhfmggswstmfmwvhwdmh.html?a%3D%26b%3D36661&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612569448881000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG2I2cv2X8n0o7Q7T5Z8AK7Ti8a5Q\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the CDC found that members of the LGBTQ+ community are more likely to have underlying health conditions that put them at an increased risk to contract the coronavirus and experience severe symptoms of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The report used data from the 2017-2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a collection of health surveys that gathers demographic and health-related information from noninstitutionalized U.S. residents over the age of 18 to determine health disparities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When age, sex, and survey year are adjusted, sexual minority persons have higher prevalences than do heterosexual persons of self-reported cancer, kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease (including myocardial infarction, angina, or coronary heart disease), obesity, smoking, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and stroke,&#8221; the report states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the LGBTQ+ community are&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31408,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31407\/revisions\/31408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}