{"id":1245,"date":"2020-09-30T10:06:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:08:10","slug":"the-role-of-anti-hypertensive-treatment-comorbidities-and-early-introduction-of-lmwh-in-the-setting-of-covid-19-a-retrospective-observational-study-in-northern-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/30\/the-role-of-anti-hypertensive-treatment-comorbidities-and-early-introduction-of-lmwh-in-the-setting-of-covid-19-a-retrospective-observational-study-in-northern-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Anti-Hypertensive Treatment, Comorbidities and Early Introduction of LMWH in the Setting of COVID-19: A Retrospective, Observational Study in Northern Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Chronic treatment with the antihypertensive medications angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I) and early treatment with low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) were both associated with lower in-hospital mortality in a cohort of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Italy (n=575), after adjusting for age. Angiotensin receptor blockers, which are also antihypertensive agents acting on the same physiological pathway, were not associated with differences in mortality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Desai et al. (Sept 24, 2020). The Role of Anti-Hypertensive Treatment, Comorbidities and Early Introduction of LMWH in the Setting of COVID-19: A Retrospective, Observational Study in Northern Italy. International Journal of Cardiology. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijcard.2020.09.062\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijcard.2020.09.062<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic treatment with the antihypertensive medications angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I) and early treatment with low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) were both associated with lower in-hospital mortality in a cohort of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Italy (n=575), after adjusting for age. Angiotensin receptor blockers, which are also antihypertensive agents acting on the same physiological pathway, were&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/30\/the-role-of-anti-hypertensive-treatment-comorbidities-and-early-introduction-of-lmwh-in-the-setting-of-covid-19-a-retrospective-observational-study-in-northern-italy\/\">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":[25,75,76,28],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-report","tag-summarize","tag-treatment","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","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=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}