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Association between renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors, clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19

2021-03-31
(Press-News.org) What The Study Did: Researchers compared mortality and severe adverse events in this systematic review and meta-analysis of 52 studies that evaluated clinical outcomes among nearly 102,000 patients with COVID-19 who did and didn't receive angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs).

Authors: Vassilios S. Vassiliou, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.3694)

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