Sound Science before Quick Judgement Regarding RAS Blockade in COVID-19

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine and Durham VA Health System, Durham, North Carolina.
• ² Section of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Epidemiology & Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery-Hypertension & Vascular Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
• ³ Joseph S and Esther Handler Professor, Departments of Medicine (Nephrology) and Physiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
• ⁴ Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt Hypertension Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
• ⁵ Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine and Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁶ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁸ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Chicago, Illinois.
• ⁹ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
• ¹⁰ Stanford Hypertension Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
• ¹¹ Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• ¹² Division of Nephrology, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Department of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹³ Division of Nephrology and Center for Immunity, Inflammation and Regenerative Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
• ¹⁴ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.