Friday, April 03, 2020

Hypertension meds

"Instead of making COVID-19 symptoms worse, some antihypertensive drugs may actually reduce the severity of infections, and could therefore be used to treat the disease, both sets of doctors say."

One of those on the list is the very common lisinopril. It would be nice if that helped alleviate symptoms.

OTOH, one of those "underlying conditions" they warn about for COVID-19 death risk is hypertension. I wonder if they can split out those who were taking their meds and those who weren't: probably not. But if the drugs helped, I'd hope one could see a difference--hypertension being a lesser risk than other factors.

1 comment:

Assistant Village Idiot said...

That would be good news for me