Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/J0XoqkE547U   ACE inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blocking medications appear to help hypertensive patients fightCoVid19 infections.  Chinese investigators now report a series of 564 hospitalized CoVid19 patients and British researchers a series of 205.   Those Chinese on the angiotensin-related medications were 5 times less likely to develop a severe case of pneumonia. The Brits on ACE inhibitors were half as likely to require critical care support or to die of their CoVid disease.   The investigators conclude that those hypertensive patients with CoVid19 infections should not be switched off angiotensin drugs.  On the other hand, they stop short of recommending their use as therapeutic agents for infected patients with treatable high blood pressure.   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20057539v1   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.07.20056788v1.full.pdf   #covid19 #coronavirus #hypertension #angiotensin #aceinhibitor #angiotensinreceptorblocke