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Virus patients with high blood pressure twice as likely to die

A worker wearing a protective mask closing a door at Leishenshan Hospital, in Wuhan, China. The city was the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak and lifted its lockdown in April. – EPA pic, June 5, 2020.

PATIENTS with high blood pressure admitted to hospital with coronavirus infections are twice as likely to die as those without the condition, researchers said today. For in-patients with the virus who had stopped taking medication for high blood pressure, the risk of dying doubled again, they reported in the European Heart Journal.

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