{"id":103867,"date":"2020-03-17T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/top-coronavirus-doctor-in-wuhan-says-high-blood-pressure-is-major-death-risk"},"modified":"2020-03-17T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:24:06","slug":"top-coronavirus-doctor-in-wuhan-says-high-blood-pressure-is-major-death-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/top-coronavirus-doctor-in-wuhan-says-high-blood-pressure-is-major-death-risk","title":{"rendered":"Top Coronavirus Doctor in Wuhan Says High Blood Pressure Is Major Death Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/top-coronavirus-doctor-in-wuhan-says-high-blood-pressure-is-major-death-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patients with hypertension appear to be at a higher risk of dying from the coronavirus, said a top Chinese intensive care doctor who\u2019s been treating critically ill patients since mid-January.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s been no published research yet explaining why, Chinese doctors working in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the virus first emerged, have noticed that infected patients with that underlying illness are more likely to slip into severe distress and die.<\/p>\n<p>Of a group of 170 patients who died in January in Wuhan \u2014 the first wave of casualties caused by a pathogen that\u2019s now raced around the world \u2014 nearly half had hypertension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients with hypertension appear to be at a higher risk of dying from the coronavirus, said a top Chinese intensive care doctor who\u2019s been treating critically ill patients since mid-January. While there\u2019s been no published research yet explaining why, Chinese doctors working in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the virus first emerged, have noticed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}