{"id":6922,"date":"2020-05-18T12:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T19:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:43:42","slug":"use-of-renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system-inhibitors-and-risk-of-covid-19-requiring-admission-to-hospital-a-case-population-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/18\/use-of-renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system-inhibitors-and-risk-of-covid-19-requiring-admission-to-hospital-a-case-population-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Inhibitors and Risk of COVID-19 Requiring Admission to Hospital: A Case-Population Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Despite earlier concerns,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">de Abajo et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found no evidence that RAAS inhibitors increase the risk of COVID-19 requiring admission to hospital, including fatal cases and those admitted to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ICUs.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conducted a case-population study in Madrid, Spain including 1,139 patients and controls matched for age, sex, region,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and date of admission to hospital at a ratio of 10:1. They\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">recommend that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RAAS inhibitors\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">should not be discontinued\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in an attempt\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to\u00a0prevent severe case<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of COVID-19.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">de Abajo et al. (May<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a01<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">4,<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a02020). Use of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Inhibitors and Risk of COVID-19 Requiring Admission to Hospital: A Case-Population Study. Lancet.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)31030-8\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)31030-8<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite earlier concerns,\u00a0de Abajo et al.\u00a0found no evidence that RAAS inhibitors increase the risk of COVID-19 requiring admission to hospital, including fatal cases and those admitted to\u00a0ICUs.\u00a0The authors conducted a case-population study in Madrid, Spain including 1,139 patients and controls matched for age, sex, region,\u00a0and date of admission to hospital at a ratio of 10:1&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/18\/use-of-renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system-inhibitors-and-risk-of-covid-19-requiring-admission-to-hospital-a-case-population-study\/\">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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-6922","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\/6922","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=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6923,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions\/6923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}