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Ace inhibitors as a potential risk factor for fatal Covid-19
- refurb 7y agoThis article is a great example of why self-experimentation can make things worse. A few days ago there was much discussion on taking ACE inhibitors prophylactically to prevent infection. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22534977 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22534977
- ethbro 7y agoThis is how science works. The user you linked to is making a more or less informed decision. It would be terrible to recommend their course of action to the entire world population. But if they want to self-dose, at low, arguably proven-safe concentrations, then that's their business. Biology is a messy, several-of-orders-of-magnitude more complex topic.
- refurb 7y agoWhat the user was doing was NOT science. It's just random experimentation. There is nothing you can learn from a one-off experiment like that. That said, you are correct that they have every right to take whatever drug they want. However, i think it nicely highlights the risk of taking something and having it make things worse.
- yokaze 7y ago"The Council on Hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology wish to highlight the lack of any evidence supporting harmful effect of ACE-I and ARB in the context of the pandemic COVID-19 outbreak." https://www.escardio.org/Councils/Council-on-Hypertension-(CHT)/News/position-statement-of-the-esc-council-on-hypertension-on-ace-inhibitors-and-ang https://www.escardio.org/Councils/Council-on-Hypertension-(C...
- SQL2219 7y agohttps://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanres/PIIS2213-2600(20)30116-8.pdf https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanres/PIIS2213-2600... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-020-0360-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-020-0360-5