{"id":1226,"date":"2020-09-29T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2020-09-30T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:21:26","slug":"exploring-the-demographics-and-clinical-characteristics-related-to-the-expression-of-angiotensin-converting-enzyme-2-a-receptor-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/29\/exploring-the-demographics-and-clinical-characteristics-related-to-the-expression-of-angiotensin-converting-enzyme-2-a-receptor-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Demographics and Clinical Characteristics Related to the Expression of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2, a Receptor of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An analysis of ACE2 expression among 229 individuals indicated that participants who were female (OR=2.3), had hypertension (OR=1.3), had a cardiocerebrovascular disease (OR=1.3), had cancer (OR=1.7), or who were over 60 years old (OR=3.1) had higher levels of ACE2 expression, which is one of the cellular entry receptors for SARS-CoV-2. The authors suggest that persons with greater ACE2 expression may be at an increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection due to higher expression of ACE2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Li et al. (Aug 19, 2020). Exploring the Demographics and Clinical Characteristics Related to the Expression of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2, a Receptor of SARS-CoV-2. Frontiers in Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmed.2020.00530\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmed.2020.00530<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of ACE2 expression among 229 individuals indicated that participants who were female (OR=2.3), had hypertension (OR=1.3), had a cardiocerebrovascular disease (OR=1.3), had cancer (OR=1.7), or who were over 60 years old (OR=3.1) had higher levels of ACE2 expression, which is one of the cellular entry receptors for SARS-CoV-2. The authors suggest that persons&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/29\/exploring-the-demographics-and-clinical-characteristics-related-to-the-expression-of-angiotensin-converting-enzyme-2-a-receptor-of-sars-cov-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}