The research primarily concerned angiotensin-converting–enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs), which are also given to diabetes patients to help protect their kidneys.
Confusing matters further, there were also contradictory animal studies that showed having more ACE2 proteins might lessen an inflammatory reaction in lungs to COVID-19, a beneficial effect.Each involved reviewing the records of thousands of people either on or not on the medicines and seeing if they got infected and how the disease progressed.
Reynolds said the findings were relieving because she had been getting questions from worried patients who had read press reports and were asking if they should stop their medicines. Mandeep Mehra, the medical director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center who led another of the studies, said another fundamental question had been answered.
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