The Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System, System Inhibitor Medications, and COVID-19

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Jaime Tortós Guzmán

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The SARS-CoV-2 virus causes COVID-19 by entering human cells by a viral protein binding to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (RCT 2). This enzyme has an important role in human physiology, by regulating the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (SRAA). Angiotensin-converting enzyme (I-ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARA II) may over-express ACE 2, leading to the hypothesis that this effect may increase the availability of target molecules for SARS -CoV2. In such a way that the SARS inhibitors could have deleterious effects in the patients who are taking them and developing COVID-19

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Tortós GuzmánJ. (2020). The Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System, System Inhibitor Medications, and COVID-19. Acta Académica, 66(Mayo), 101-108. Retrieved from http://webservertest.uaca.ac.cr/index.php/actas/article/view/344
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