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High blood pressure drugs apparently don’t add to covid-19 danger as earlier feared
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...6bf9_story.html
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For the millions of Americans who suffer from high blood pressure, reports that identify hypertension as a significant risk factor for serious illness and death related to covid-19 may seem frightening. Yet one piece of reassuring news has emerged from the confusion that should ease at least some of the worry.
Certain widely used medications that treat high blood pressure apparently don’t add to the danger as earlier feared. Recent studies suggest they don’t make people more susceptible to becoming infected with the coronavirus, nor do they exacerbate the disease. As a result, doctors who care for patients with hypertension have urged them to continue taking the drugs.
“I believe these medications do not make covid-19 worse,” says Karan Desai, a cardiology fellow at the University of Maryland Medical Center. “These medications treat hypertension and heart failure. But if these conditions worsen or go untreated, it will likely make covid-19 more severe if a patient contracts the virus.”
These findings are important because earlier reports raised questions about whether two frequently prescribed classes of blood pressure drugs, ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), might actually make people more vulnerable to contracting the virus and cause an infection to become more virulent.
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