{"id":7917,"date":"2020-05-14T15:44:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T10:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7917"},"modified":"2020-05-14T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T10:14:52","slug":"enzyme-ace2-in-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/enzyme-ace2-in-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzyme ACE2 in blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>A new study has suggested reasons for why men seem to be more vulnerable to Covid-19 than women.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/files\/2020\/05\/ace-2-covid19-men-blood-neuroscinews.jpg\" alt=\"Men's blood contains greater concentrations of enzyme that helps ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The role of enzyme ACE2 in Covid-19 is already established: It responds to the novel coronavirus and enables it to infect the human cell. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The new, large study of several thousand patients found men have higher concentrations of ACE2 in their blood than women.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The researchers measured ACE2 concentrations in blood samples from several thousand heart failure patients from 11 European countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The study also found that heart failure patients taking a certain class of drugs (called <strong>RAAS inhibitors<\/strong>) did not have higher concentrations of ACE2 in their blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Some recent research had suggested that RAAS inhibitors might increase ACE2 concentrations in blood plasma, thereby increasing the risk of Covid-19 for cardiovascular patients taking these drugs, but the new study indicates that this is not the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/LPIXF77mYWw\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Renin Angiotensin System Inhibitors Mechansism of Action Animation ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science Why in news? \u2022 A new study has suggested reasons for why men seem to be more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7918,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions\/7918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}