Iran has unveiled a homegrown recombinant vaccine called Noora for COVID-19, a day after it started the domestic production of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.
Does hypertension always lead to severe COVID-19?
Caused by the infectious agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is often more severe in those with underlying medical conditions – such as diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.
Hypertension is the most common comorbidity among COVID-19 patients. In some cases, the condition leads to worse clinical outcomes, but there is a lack of evidence about prognostic factors among these patients.
Now, a team of researchers at the Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences in Iran have developed some prognostic factors to predict the severity of COVID-19 among hypertensive patients.
The research study, published in the journal