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Hypertension prevalence in human coronavirus disease: the role of ACE system in infection spread and severity

The prevalence of hypertension is high in patients affected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) and it appears to be related to an increased risk of mortality, as shown in many epidemiological studies. The angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) system is not uniformly expressed in all of the human...

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Autores principales: Ruocco, Gaetano, Feola, Mauro, Palazzuoli, Alberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32335337
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.04.058