{"id":9397,"date":"2021-04-23T09:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9397"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T16:44:09","slug":"does-taking-an-angiotensin-inhibitor-increase-the-risk-for-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/23\/does-taking-an-angiotensin-inhibitor-increase-the-risk-for-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Taking an Angiotensin Inhibitor Increase the Risk for COVID-19? &#8211; A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A systematic review and meta-analysis found no association between angiotensin inhibitor (ACE) use and COVID-19 severity or mortality. The authors suggest that these data may indicate that the presence of hypertension, rather than the use of ACEs, is a greater risk factor for severe COVID-19 outcomes. The authors conclude that there is no evidence to support discontinuation of ACE drugs to prevent COVID-19-associated morbidity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ma et al. (Apr 2021). Does Taking an Angiotensin Inhibitor Increase the Risk for COVID-19? &#8211; A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Aging. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18632\/aging.202902\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18632\/aging.202902<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review and meta-analysis found no association between angiotensin inhibitor (ACE) use and COVID-19 severity or mortality. The authors suggest that these data may indicate that the presence of hypertension, rather than the use of ACEs, is a greater risk factor for severe COVID-19 outcomes. The authors conclude that there is no evidence to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/23\/does-taking-an-angiotensin-inhibitor-increase-the-risk-for-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/\">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":[164],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-risk-factor","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397","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=9397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9398,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions\/9398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9397"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}