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Looking forward to the cardiac data for March 2020-May 2020

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OK, so: "females tend to be over-represented in the hospitalised category with an admission rate of 53.8% compared to 46.2% for males."

I have two theories about this:

1) females live longer than males, so are less likely to have a spouse at home to care for them

2) men are usually all thumbs when having to cope with complex stuff like dressings, catheters and colostomy bags, and as a result, discharge supervisors tend to give us blokes a bit more slack.

Do I get a cigar?

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To this I would add that females go wrong in different ways. Heart valve and heart failure tends to feature for those with longer life spans, but I see no reason why we can't enjoy a Havana.

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I've a couple of super old-lady friends - both recently very fit and active - and respectable conformists who would have taken every jab going - who have been recently diagnosed with rather aggressive dementias. I'll take one as chance, and two as a coincidence - if I find a third, I will start getting suspicious.

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There's no unlike button but I am pressing it nevertheless. Goodness knows what will transpire these next few years.

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'Goodness' will not be allowed to know: and that is the tragedy we are in: the figures are clearly being manipulated from a great height and it will probably take 20 years to get to anything like the truth - as it did with the Post Office Scandal, Contaminated Blood transfusions, Mesh implants , Thalidomide and all the rest ... that seems to be what 'the powers that be' need in order to get out of the firing line. It were ever thus ....

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