The association of COVID-19 occurrence and severity with the use of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin-II receptor blockers in patients with hypertension

• Mingfei Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ying Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ndindam Ndiwane,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Michelle B. Orner,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Natalia Palacios,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America, Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Brant Mittler,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Dan Berlowitz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lewis E. Kazis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR), Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Weiming Xia

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: weiming.xia@va.gov, wxia@bu.edu

  Affiliations Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Bedford VA Healthcare System, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-3295

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