Is aberrant cd8+ t cell activation by hypertension associated with cardiac injury in severe cases of covid-19?

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• who: Chao Zhang from the according the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins UniversityAccumulating data suggest that hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases are the most frequent comorbidities in , patients, and case mortality rates tended to be high in these individuals [2]. Among few studies that focus on , severe pneumonia, cardiovascular diseases are among the most frequent comorbidities [3-5] with hypertension being the most common (, of , patients, %) in one study, exceeding twofold in , ARDS patients (, of, .4%) more than mild patients (, of, .7%) in another study. Angiotensin II (Ang II) is a potent hypertensive hormone, and increased . . .
  

   

  

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