People with hypertension, or high blood pressure, most likely will develop complications when infected by Covid-19, said the analysis of medical records was more than 1,800 patients treated in hospitals in the United States.
A similar study of 18,000 Covid patients by Max Healthcare also determined the role of hypertension in complications.
These findings can help hospitals give priority in treatment to patients who are susceptible to registered complications.
American studies show that hypertension is associated with 10 complications, including acute respiratory disorder syndrome, heart beatings and improper anemia.
In an analysis carried out using the artificial intelligence platform (AI) developed by Nafension Labs, a Bengaluru-based company, cardiovascular chronic disease (heart failure, coronary artery, cardiomyopathy) and chronic kidney disease proves the most significant most significant complication predictors in infection Covid early.
“This finding will help doctors prioritize patients in accordance with their vulnerability to develop complications and at the same time focus on the most common complications associated with different co-morbidity and, thus save lives,” Venky Soundararajan, Co-founder and Scientific head of Ningerating officers, Nafension Labs holding company, told TII.
For analysis, the results received for publication in natural digital medicine, Soundararajan explained the researchers utilizing 1.1 million clinical records of 1,803 covid patients treated in hospitals and the inner neural network model to characterize the association between 21 existing conditions and development , Complications along the Covid infection road.
“Pleural effusion, or liquid accumulation in the lungs, is the most common of the initial Covid infection complications (4.9%) followed by the cardiac arrhythmias,” he said.
The AI Nessa platform has been used earlier for several discoveries about Covid – from showing the effectiveness of “real worlds” and the security of covid vaccines produced by modera, Pfizer / Bionontech and Johnson & Johnson to find that loss of odor (anosmia) precedes a positive covid test in many patients Up to a week before their diagnosis date.
The AI platform also studies how mass vaccination basically limits the evolution of the SARS-COV-2 variant (such as Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta), the company said.
Dr.
Sandeep Budhiraja, Medical Director of the Max Healthcare group, said his own hospital group study involving more than 18,000 Covid patients in the same way showed how hypertension was a major risk factor for developing complications due to infection.
“Coronavirus which causes Covid to enter the body by attaching itself to ACE-2 receptors on cells in the lungs, liver, heart and kidneys,” said Budhiraja.
“Initially, he was hypotheducted that some blood pressure-lowering drugs caused an increase in the number of ACE-2 receptors, thus placing organs at a higher risk of colonization by the virus and, therefore, increased severity.
But the theory proved wrong.
Other hypotheses are that hypertension causes Chronic inflammation and damage to the network.
Covid exacerbates it further leading to more complications, “said Budhiraja, adding that the jury about the problem was still out.
Dr Neeraj Nischal from AIIMS said that hypertension is a general comorbidity in older patients who are known to be a higher risk of being complicated.
“The association of causes between hypertension and morbidity and mortality still need to be established even though we have seen it generally related to patients who have poor results,” Nischal said.
Dr.
Rajesh Chawla, Senior Consultant, Lung Medical and Critical Care, Apollo Hospital, added, “It is important to control blood pressure to prevent severe diseases.
Prognosis of patients with uncontrolled hypertension is worse.”
Those who have high BP are most likely to get post-covid problems
