JAHA: Taking blood pressure-lowering medications can help reduce the risk of death from influenza pneumonia.

Oct 4, 2020 /--- According to a recent study, drugs that lower blood pressure, especially ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II blockers, can reduce mortality from influenza and pneumonia.
this is the main finding of a new study published in Journal of The American Heart Association.
study, researchers compared the mortality rates of 500,000 Danish patients admitted to hospital with influenza and pneumonia in Denmark between 2005 and 2018.
(Photo source: www.pixabay.com) "About 100,000 patients admitted to the hospital took ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II blockers, and studies have shown that fewer patients who take the drug use a ventilator and have a lower mortality rate than those who take another antihypertensive drug."
"" says author Christian Fynbo Christiansen.
, however, some researchers point out that ACE inhibitors may actually have the exact opposite effect -- increasing the risk of dying from COVID-19 because SAV-CoV-2 enters the lungs through the same ACE subject.
when ACE inhibitors lower ACE levels, the body compensates by activating the expression of a large number of ACE receptors on the cell surface.
the number of subjects on the surface of the cell, the easier it is for the virus to gain access to the cell.
"We haven't looked at whether drugs for influenza and pneumonia can be transferred directly to PATIENT-19 patients, but there is evidence that ACE inhibitors protect against lung damage, which is not seen in patients taking other blood pressure-lowering drugs."
.com Source: Users of blood pressure medicine have been a lower risk of dying from the original source of influenza and pneumonia: Christian Fynbo Christiansen et al, Renin-Angiotensin System Blockers and Adverse Outcomes of Influenza and Pneumonia: A Danish Cohort Study, Journal of The American Heart Association (2020). DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.120.017297.