An idea that has been doing the rounds on social media suggests that certain heart and kidney medications make people more susceptible to COVID-19.
A new commentary strongly disputes this. The commentary warns that discontinuing these hypertension and kidney medications would seriously endanger the health of those taking the drugs for high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, and chronic kidney disease.
A. H. Jan Danser, from the Department of Internal Medicine at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is the first author of the commentary, which appears in Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association (AHA). Stay informed with live updates on the current COVID-19 outbreak and visit our coronavirus hub