{"id":5502,"date":"2020-03-27T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T00:18:43","slug":"anti-hypertensive-angiotensin-ii-receptor-blockers-associated-to-mitigation-of-disease-severity-in-elderly-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/27\/anti-hypertensive-angiotensin-ii-receptor-blockers-associated-to-mitigation-of-disease-severity-in-elderly-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-hypertensive Angiotensin II receptor blockers associated to mitigation of disease severity in elderly COVID-19 patients."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Findings from this retrospective study of 511 COVID-19 patients suggest that elderly (age 65+) patients with hypertension (HT) who are taking ARB anti-HT drugs may be less likely to develop severe lung disease when compared to patients taking no anti-HT drugs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liu et al. (Mar 27, 2020). Anti-hypertensive Angiotensin II receptor blockers associated to mitigation of disease severity in elderly COVID-19 patients. Pre-print downloaded Mar 27 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.20.20039586\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.20.20039586<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings from this retrospective study of 511 COVID-19 patients suggest that elderly (age 65+) patients with hypertension (HT) who are taking ARB anti-HT drugs may be less likely to develop severe lung disease when compared to patients taking no anti-HT drugs. Liu et al. (Mar 27, 2020). Anti-hypertensive Angiotensin II receptor blockers associated to mitigation&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/27\/anti-hypertensive-angiotensin-ii-receptor-blockers-associated-to-mitigation-of-disease-severity-in-elderly-covid-19-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5503,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}