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SUBMITTER: Christiansen CF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7792378 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Christiansen Christian Fynbo CF Heide-Jørgensen Uffe U Rasmussen Thomas Bøjer TB Bodilsen Jacob J Søgaard Ole Schmeltz OS Maeng Michael M Vistisen Simon Tilma ST Schmidt Morten M Pottegård Anton A Lund Lars Christian LC Reilev Mette M Hallas Jesper J Johansen Nanna Borup NB Brun Nikolai Constantin NC Sørensen Henrik Toft HT Thomsen Reimar Wernich RW
Journal of the American Heart Association 20201001 19
Background Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-Is) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) may worsen the prognosis of coronavirus disease 2019, but any association could be confounded by the cardiometabolic conditions indicating ACE-I/ARB use. We therefore examined the impact of ACE-Is/ARBs on respiratory tract infection outcomes. Methods and Results This cohort study included all adult patients hospitalized with influenza or pneumonia from 2005 to 2018 in Denmark using population-ba ...[more]