High Blood Pressure Is Major Death Risk in Coronavirus: Doctor

A top Chinese intensive care doctor who has been managing critically ill patients since mid-January said patients with hypertension tend to be at a higher risk of dying from the coronavirus.

Chinese doctors working in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the virus first appeared, have found that untreated patients with that underlying disease are more likely to slip into severe distress and die.

Of a total for 170 patients who died in Wuhan in January — the first round of casualties caused by a pathogen currently speeding around the globe — about half had hypertension.

Source: Hindustan Times