Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD
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March 2021
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Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis · Mar 2021
Meta AnalysisHypertension is a clinically important risk factor for critical illness and mortality in COVID-19: A meta-analysis.
As reported, hypertension may play an important role in adverse outcomes of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), but it still had many confounding factors. The aim of this study was to explore whether hypertension is an independent risk factor for critical COVID-19 and mortality. ⋯ Evidence from this meta-analysis suggested that hypertension was independently associated with a significantly increased risk of critical COVID-19 and inhospital mortality of COVID-19.