New research offers reassuring evidence to hundreds of millions of people with high blood pressure that popular anti-hypertension drugs do not put ...
FILE PHOTO: An illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , depicts the 2019 Novel CoronavirusREUTERS: New research offers reassuring evidence to hundreds of millions of people with high blood pressure that popular anti-hypertension drugs do not put them at greater risk from COVID-19 as some experts had feared.
The new study made publicly available on Friday found no clinically significant increased risk of either a diagnosis or hospitalization of COVID-19 with ACE or ARB use compared with other first-line drug treatments for hypertension. It was part of the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics program response to COVID-19, in collaboration with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and SIDIAP, a Spanish health research organization.The findings join a growing body of evidence showing that the life-saving drugs neither increase nor reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 or developing a severe case of the virus.
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