Vaccine - Everyone aged 16-64 with an underlying health condition

[AlsDiner]

The planned group 6 of vaccine recipients is "Everyone aged 16-64 with an underlying health condition". I can't find exactly what those underlying health conditions are though. Is there a list of specific conditions?

@Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady

CEV (group 4) is anyone who has had a shielding letter

CV (Group 6) is the list posted above

Ohhh that makes sense - thank you

@lljkk

I kind of thought hypertension was a byproduct of other conditions, it doesn't usually exist by itself, that's why it's hard to put it into the risk factor list by itself.

Yes that's true - good point. My own hypertension is unusual come to think of it because it does exist in isolation with no other conditions or obesity or anything. But this isn't often the case, you're right.

I kind of thought hypertension was a byproduct of other conditions, it doesn't usually exist by itself, According to wiki (not my usual source of medical advice) 90%-95% is primary hypertension, 5%-10% is secondary, from an identifiable underlying condition.

That would back up experience of people I know with hypertension, who are being treated for the hypertension, with no underlying cause identified.

NHS puts it a bit higher: "In about 1 in 20 cases, high blood pressure happens as the result of an underlying health condition or taking a certain medicine."

Doesn’t look like Dd is eligible to have it earlier even though she’s eligible for flu jab every year due to her many auto immune illnesses. Must admit this worries me a bit. I don’t see how they can tell her one week that she’s high risk if she catches flue and she must be vaccinated. But yet for covid isn’t high risk?

@JacobReesMogadishu

Doesn’t look like Dd is eligible to have it earlier even though she’s eligible for flu jab every year due to her many auto immune illnesses. Must admit this worries me a bit. I don’t see how they can tell her one week that she’s high risk if she catches flue and she must be vaccinated. But yet for covid isn’t high risk?

I get the free flu jab and am not on the list for the covid injection. It’s because the high risk groups for covid aren’t the same as the high risk groups for flu. The virus works differently and affects different groups of people though of course some overlap.

Thank you for linking the article @AlsDiner. It's very interesting. DH has taken an ACE inhibitor since his mid 30's with no other linked condition or explanation for why his BP is high. Normal BMI, completely normal lifestyle etc.

At the start of this hypertension was quoted as a top risk factor looking at data coming out of China. It felt impossible to separate that from age being such a high risk factor though. Lots of older people have high BP etc. DH's BP is normal on his medication and he isn't called for flu jab.

It sounds from reading information on this thread he will just be vaccinated with the rest of his age group (early 40's).