New findings in corona research. Apparently there is a known means that is supposed to reduce the risk of death from Covid-19 by a whole third.
- Corona research is in full swing. How can Covid-19 be contained?
- According to a British study, there is now a new means that should at least minimize the risk of death.
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Norwich - How can you protect yourself against the coronavirus , how can the risk of death be minimized? Science is currently desperately looking for answers in terms of Covid-19 containment . So far, research has already yielded important findings. It can now be assumed that so-called aerosols - the smallest of particles suspended in the air - play a decisive role in virus transmission. In addition, an antidote is currently being extensively researched. While a lot revolves around a vaccine * longed for by politicians, the corona risk could possibly also be contained by another means.
Corona research: New study from England - antihypertensive drugs probably reduce the risk of death
According to a recent study from England are antihypertensives , the risk of death in Covid-19 patients reduce by a third. A team of researchers from the University of East Anglia in Norwich , UK analyzed data from 28,872 patients who had contracted the coronavirus and were being treated in hospital. A quarter of Covid-19 patients suffered from high blood pressure and therefore took antihypertensive drugs such as ACE inhibitors ( vasodilator tablets, which lower the vascular resistance and thus the blood pressure, d. Red .).
If one looks at the course of the disease in these people, significant differences become apparent. The risk of corona death was one third lower in these patients than in the rest of the sick. They also had to be ventilated less often. In the meantime, there was no appreciable effect in patients who did not suffer from high blood pressure and still took such drugs. The drugs didn't do any harm, but they also didn't have a positive effect on the course of the disease.
Corona research: "These drugs could actually save lives"
The results of the work are nevertheless extremely interesting, because people with high blood pressure actually belong to the corona risk group *. In the event of an infection, however, drugs for blood pressure of all things could reduce the risk. Based on the results, the researchers suspect that the agents have a positive influence on vascular health, which should also reduce inflammation in the body and thus help recovery from corona .
Dr. Vassilios Vassiliou was involved in the study and is certain: “We can now very conclusively say that people who have been prescribed these drugs should continue to take them because they do not increase death or critical events. In fact, they could save lives. "
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- Vass Vassiliou (@vass_vassiliou) August 24, 2020Corona research: "Note that antihypertensive drugs improve the healing process in Covid-19"
It remains to be seen how meaningful the study is. To date, operating with a comparatively large sample is at least to be rated positively. In order to achieve a final picture of the work, it would have to be replicated. In science, replication is the repeated finding of findings from previous research by repeating the same or a very similar study.
The first reactions to the study results are already "very positive", as Professor Dr. Ulrich Wenzel , President of the German High Pressure League, told bild.de (article behind Bezahlschranke): "The results are an indication that antihypertensive drugs such as ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers improve the healing process for Covid-19 ." At the same time, the doctor slowed down also any expectations, because “this must now be examined more precisely in further studies. It is too early to give a clear answer. ”So there is hope for the moment. (as) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network
