Association of hypertension with mortality in patients hospitalised with COVID-19.
Kunwardeep S BhatiaHari P SritharanJonathan CiofaniJustin ChiaUsaid Khalil AllahwalaKarina ChuiDaniel NourSheran VasanthakumarDhanvee KhandadaiPavithra JayadevaRohan BhagwandeenDavid BriegerChristopher ChoongAnthony DelaneyGirish DwivediBenjamin HarrisGraham Scott HillisBernard HudsonGeorge JavorskiNigel JepsonLogan KanagaratnamGeorge KotsiouAstin LeeSidney T LoAndrew I MacIsaacBrendan McQuillanIsuru RanasingheAntony WaltonJames WeaverWilliam WilsonAndy S C YongJohn ZhuWilliam Van GaalLeonard KritharidesClara Kayei ChowRavinay BhindiPublished in: Open heart (2021)
In patients hospitalised with COVID-19, pre-existing hypertension was the most prevalent comorbidity but was not independently associated with mortality. Similarly, the baseline use of ACE inhibitors or ARBs had no independent association with in-hospital mortality.