Over 99% of coronavirus patients in Italy who died had other health problems
Can angiotensin receptor-blocking drugs perhaps be harmful in the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Source: FixCOVID19.com
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My name is Dr James Freeman and the purpose of this site is very simple: gather data for analysis to see if there is any correlation between the medications people took before and during their COVID-19 illness and how severe it was.
The key questions we are looking to answer with this data are:
Do any medications increase the risk of severe disease?
Do any medications decrease the risk of severe disease?
Does a medication have no impact on the risk of severe disease?
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These policies are short because our time is short.
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Ed.'d note: Big applaud for Aimee Cunningham at Science News. Well done. Thank you.
Source: Science News
Why some heart patients may be especially vulnerable to COVID-19
People with hypertension and cardiovascular disease risk severe bouts of the disease
Doctors work in a COVID-19 isolation ward in the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital on February 16. Patients with underlying medical conditions like cardiovascular disease have ended up in the hospital with severe cases of the illness. Some scientists wonder if that’s related to how the virus that causes COVID-19 enters cells.
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By Aimee Cunningham | MARCH 20, 2020
As researchers examine deaths from COVID-19, heart patients appear especially vulnerable.
In Italy, where the number of deaths has now surpassed those in China, public health officials reported on March 17 that among 355 people who died, a whopping 76 percent had hypertension and 33 percent had heart disease. And among more than 44,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in China (SN: 2/25/20), the case fatality rate for people with underlying conditions was highest for those with cardiovascular disease, at 10.5 percent compared with the overall fatality rate of 2.3 percent.
Researchers know generally that infections can take a toll on people who have other health problems. But SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may pose particular danger to the heart because of how the virus gets into cells, researchers speculate.
To invade a cell, SARS-CoV-2 latches onto a protein called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, or ACE2 (SN: 3/3/20). This protein is found on cells in the lungs, allowing the virus to invade these cells and cause respiratory symptoms. But ACE2 also is on heart muscle cells and cells that line the blood vessels.
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Considering the involvement of ACE2, COVID-19 may damage the heart directly, researchers write in a commentary in Nature Reviews Cardiology March 5. According to studies out of Wuhan, China, where the outbreak started, some people with COVID-19 have developed myocardial injury, the death of heart cells for reasons other than a heart attack.
But ACE2 does more than offer an entry point for SARS-CoV-2. The protein is also part of a wide-ranging system of hormones, called the renin angiotensin aldosterone system, that regulates blood pressure and cardiovascular and kidney function. Drugs that target other parts of this system are widely prescribed to lower blood pressure in people with hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
Two classes of these drugs — ACE inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers — are getting some scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic. ACE inhibitors block ACE proteins, which are different than ACE2 proteins. The aim is to prevent ACE from helping to make a protein called angiotensin II, which increases blood pressure in the arteries. Angiotensin II receptor blockers, or ARBs, stop angiotensin II from functioning.
Please go to Science News to read the entire article.
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Ed.'s note: See where ignorance gets us? Then stop and think for a moment about the information above compared to what is going on in Italy. How many of these deaths mostly of the elderly in Italy were related to taking medications for high blood pressure or other ailments?
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It doesn't "add up" because the data is now being compiled from all over the globe to ascertain the possible effect medications are having on people who have the coronavirus (influenza and colds) while on certain meds.
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Let's think about this for one damn serious minute. If there is a correlation between medications for hypertension and high blood pressure and these meds are possibly causing high attrition in the elderly on these medications with coronavirus, these friggn' lunatics now what to start injecting people for COVID-19 with some sort of plant-based derivative? There is a problem here with medications and now the drug cartels working with governments and private corporations want to inject more concoctions into people?
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This is what is being put in place as a result of this covert coronavirus war on us.
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As always the Japanese shine again with carnage all around...
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With news like this makes us wonder the level of UK participation in this global hysteria and panic over coronavirus. News update for 25 March 2020:
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If circumstances weren't already bad enough, why would the FBI and Jewish groups be working on this kind of dirty dealing?
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