“Can high blood pressure make you more likely to catch covid-19?”
I am a 34 year old male. I have high blood pressure and I am tired almost all day. Can high blood pressure make you more likely to catch covid-19?
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During this recent pandemic there has been a relatively high association between pre-existing conditions and the susceptibility to get the virus and to have an adverse outcome from the infection. The most important ones that have been identified are obesity and type 2 diabetes. Hypertension, which does go along with the older age has been associated, but may or may not be a cause of infection morbidity it may just be that hypertension is a marker of older age. Clearly older people are more susceptible to bad outcomes with the infection.
