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Impact of Arterial Hypertension and Use of Antihypertensive Pharmacotherapy on Mortality in Patients Hospitalized due to COVID-19: The CRACoV-HHS Study.

Wiktoria WojciechowskaMichał TerleckiMarek KlocekAgnieszka PacAgnieszka OlszaneckaKatarzyna Stolarz-SkrzypekMarek JastrzebskiPiotr JankowskiAleksandra OstrowskaTomasz DrożdżAleksander PrejbiszPiotr DobrowolskiAndrzej JanuszewiczMarcin KrzanowskiMaciej T MałeckiTomasz GrodzickiReinhold KreutzMarek W Rajzernull null
Published in: Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) (2022)
Although the diagnosis of preexisting hypertension per se had no significant impact on in-hospital mortality among patients with COVID-19, treatment with any first-line blood pressure-lowering drug had a profound beneficial effect on survival in patients with hypertension. These data support the need for antihypertensive pharmacological treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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