Scientist who led research reassures patients that they should continue their blood pressure medications without worry. FMTNews FMTLifestyle BloodPressure Covid19
Commonly used blood pressure medicines do not heighten susceptibility to Covid-19 infection, or increase the risk of becoming seriously ill with the disease, three major studies said Friday, positive news for the millions of people who take them.
ACE inhibitors include the likes of ramipril, lisinopril and other drugs ending in -pril; while ARBs include valsartan and losartan, and generally end in -sartan. They then used statistical methods to control for other factors like underlying health conditions that might make people more susceptible to infection and to serious Covid-19.
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 Centre who led another of the studies, said another fundamental question had been answered.
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