LONDON, June 13 ― 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. Two blood pressure-lowering drug classes, called ACE inhibitors and...
Saturday, 13 Jun 2020 11:38 AM MYT
Two blood pressure-lowering drug classes, called ACE inhibitors and ARBs, came under scrutiny after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in April that 72 per cent of hospitalised Covid-19 patients 65 or older had hypertension. The new study made publicly available yesterday 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.
The study analysed the electronic medical records of 1.1 million patients on anti-hypertension drugs from the United States and Spain and has not yet been peer reviewed.
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