Association of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors with severity or risk of death in patients with hypertension hospitalized for COVID-19

What The Study Did: The association between angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers and the severity of illness and death in patients with hypertension hospitalized for COVID-19 is examined in this study.

Authors: Aiping Deng, of the Central Hospital of Wuhan in China, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2020.1624)

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