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UMN launches two coronavirus trials using blood pressure medication Losartan
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Medical experts have for weeks tested the degree to which anti-viral treatments such as hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir can prevent the coronavirus from gaining ground inside a patient’s body.
With a boost from Bill Gates, two doctors at the University of Minnesota Medical School are challenging the medical community to try a different approach — treatment studies involving common high-blood pressure medications.
“This is different than doing what most of the other clinical trials are trying to do right now,” said Dr. Michael Puskarich. “We’re looking at more of the downstream consequences of the virus.”
In other words, “we’re not preventing the virus, but we’re preventing the lung injury,” he said. “And in patients who already have lung injury, can we treat the lung injury, and prevent it from getting worse?”
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Peat discussed Losartan as treatment for CV-19 pathology here;Pol&Sci. Ray Peat On The Coronavirus, Immunity, & Vaccines. 2020-03-18
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Medical experts have for weeks tested the degree to which anti-viral treatments such as hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir can prevent the coronavirus from gaining ground inside a patient’s body.
With a boost from Bill Gates, two doctors at the University of Minnesota Medical School are challenging the medical community to try a different approach — treatment studies involving common high-blood pressure medications.
“This is different than doing what most of the other clinical trials are trying to do right now,” said Dr. Michael Puskarich. “We’re looking at more of the downstream consequences of the virus.”
In other words, “we’re not preventing the virus, but we’re preventing the lung injury,” he said. “And in patients who already have lung injury, can we treat the lung injury, and prevent it from getting worse?”
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Peat discussed Losartan as treatment for CV-19 pathology here;Pol&Sci. Ray Peat On The Coronavirus, Immunity, & Vaccines. 2020-03-18