Medicine is not an exact science. What is deemed appropriate and true, often changes over time.
Much information has been collected but not properly analyzed regarding the COVID-19 virus. The big question is since ACE 2 receptors are thought to be the portal of entry fpr the virus, what is the effect on patients who use ACE inhibitors such as enalapril or ARBs such as valsartan. On one hand it is thought that those drugs may increase the number of ACE2 sites and make infection more likely. Yet these drugs might block or biochemically alter the sites to make infection less likely. A careful retrospective analysis of the data may give an answer. Years later the basic science may give an explanation. For now the FDA is recommending that people prescribed those drugs continue to take them.
I’ve been taking ACE inhibitors for 30 years. Lotrel works perfectly for me, at low dosage. Nothing else I ever tried did any good at all.
Sure would be nice to know whether my daily medicine HELPS, or HURTS?
Thank you for that detailed information.
Could you provide a Link for me to pass along to my Primary Provider?
Thanks!