Medscape

Inhibition of the Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System in Black Populations -- Does It or Doesn't It Work?

Unique Characteristics of Hypertension in Blacks That Influence BP Responses to Drugs That Block the Renin-Angiotensin Activating System (RAAS) Blockade of the RAAS in Blacks for Cardiovascular and ...
Medscape

Inhibition of the Renin-Angiotensin System and Vascular Protection

Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonists have become an important tool for the treatment of hypertension and its cardiovascular complications. Inhibition ...
News Medical

Severe COVID linked to RAAS and hyperlipidemia associated metabolic syndrome conditions

A recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server investigated the association of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS)-mediated hypertension (HT) with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
TCTMD

Drugs to Tweak RAAS Response No Help in Acute COVID-19, RCTs Show

Treatments that target the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) don’t improve outcomes in adult patients hospitalized with acute COVID-19. Three separate trials of different RAAS-related ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Treating hypertension—Losing sight of the forest for the trees?

The RAAS system starts when the kidneys sense that a decrease in perfusion and renin is released into the bloodstream to combine with circulating angiotensinogen to form angiotensin I. ACE rapidly ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Inhibitors of the Renin–Angiotensin–Aldosterone System and Covid-19

Studies in animals have shown that ACE2 is used by coronaviruses as a functional receptor. ARBs and ACE inhibitors increase the expression of ACE2; a hypothesis that their use may modify ...