<scp>RAAS</scp> blockers in hypertension posing a higher risk toward the <scp>COVID</scp> ‐19
Yogendra Singh, Gaurav Gupta, Saurabh Satija, Poonam Negi, Dinesh Kumar Chellappan, Kamal Dua
Abstract
posing a higher risk toward the COVID-19 Dear Editor, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a fatal disease that could lead to a serious respiratory illness. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the disease, a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, even as COVID-19 rapidly spread across the world. According to the 2019 WHO data, an estimated 1.13 billion people suffer from hyper-
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