Review Article

Hypertension May Reduce the Infection Risk but Increase the Severity of COVID-19: Based on the Current Data in China

Table 1

Number, age, sex, and hypertension of patients of the included studies.

ReferencesDateNumber of patientsAreaAgeSex (male, %)Hypertension (%)

Chaolin HuangAs of 2020.1.241Wuhan4973.214.6
Youbin Liu2020.1.10–2020.2.24291Guangzhou48.145.718.6
Jie Li2020.1.22–2020.2.1017Dazhou4552.95.9
Guyi WangAs of 2020.2.20242Changsha4549.214.9
Yafei Wang2020.1.1–2020.2.10110Wuhan43.620.9
Xiaowei Xu2020.1.10–2020.1.26627 hospitals in Zhejiang4156.58.1
Wanbo Zhu2020.1.24–2020.2.2032Hefei4646.921.9
Xu Chen2020.1.23–2020.2.14291Changsha and Loudi4649.813.4
Qingxian Cai2020.1.11–2020.2.6298Shenzhen475012.8
Dawei Wang2020.1.1–2020.1.28138Wuhan5654.331.2
W. Guan2019.12.11–2020.1.291099552 hospitals4758.115.0
Fei Zhou2019.12.29–2020.1.31191Wuhan5662.330.4
Guoqing Qian2020.1.20–2020.2.11917 hospitals in Zhejiang5040.716.5
Guqin Zhang2020.1.2–2020.2.10221Wuhan5548.924.4
Pengfei Cui2020.1.28–2020.2.1835Wuhan61.5034.3
Yu Lei2020.1.4–2020.2.2867Daofu39.358.211.9
Lei Liu2020.1.20–2020.2.351Chongqing4562.77.8
Lei Wang2020.1.21–2020.2.518Zhengzhou3955.627.8
Penghui Yang2019.12.27–2020.2.1855Beijing446020
Jinjin Zhang2020.1.16–2020.2.3140Wuhan5750.730
Jie Liu2020.1.16–2020.2.1564Wuhan3535.94.7
Min Cao2020.1.20–2020.2.15198Shanghai50.151.021.2
Chengfeng Qiu2020.1.22–2020.2.12104Huaihua4347.114.4
Rui Huang2020.1.22–2020.2.1022110 hospitals in Jiangsu4557.014.5
Zhijun Xie2020.1.22–2020.2.1560Hangzhou454515
Fengqin Zhang2020.1.30–2020.2.1581Jinzhou55.613.6
Songqiao Liu2020.1.10–2020.2.1862024 hospitals in Jiangsu44.4852.615.5
Weijie Guan2019.12.11–2020.1.311590575 hospitals48.957.317.0
Peng Zhang2019.12.31–2020.2.2034309 hospitals in Hubei32.932.9
Juan Meng2020.1.11–2020.2.23417Shenzhen64.512.2
Sijiao Wang2020.1.22–2020.2.16165Fuzhou4455.814.5
Shijiao Yan2020.1.22–2020.3.13168Haikou5148.214.3
Xiufeng Jiang2020.1.23–2020.2.1655Wuxi4549.130.9
Yu Shi2020.1.16–2020.2.174875 hospitals in Zhejiang4653.220.3
Huisi He2020.2.8–2020.3.1694Wuhan69.257.459.6
Caizheng Yu2020.1.14–2020.2.281663Wuhan6450.420.9
Lin Fu2020.1.1–2020.1.30200Wuhan49.550.5
Zhenhua Zeng2020.1.5–2020.3.8274Wuhan6054.727.4
Xin Chen2020.2.11–2020.2.29208Xiaogan50.551.419.7
Xingwei He2020.2.3–2020.2.2454Wuhan6863.044.4
Bo Hu2020.1.8–2020.2.950Wuhan626836
Suxin Wan2020.1.23–2020.2.8135Chongqing4753.39.6
Yimei YinAs of 2020.2.15112Wuhan6668.843.8
Zhongbao Zuo2020.1.20–2020.2.2870Hangzhou4341.412.9
Wei Chen2020.1.19–2020.2.774Nanjing48.158.113.5
Jiaxi Chen2020.1.22–2020.2.26137Taizhou52.612.4
Wentao Xu2020.1.10–2020.2.1887Suzhou52.96.9
Yingxia Liu2020.1.11–2020.2.5;78Shenzhen100
2020.1.12–2020.2.9;Wuhan
2019.12.27–2020.2.27Beijing
Kun Wang2020.1.7–2020.2.11305Wuhan47.846.614.8
Fei Zhou2019.12.29–2020.1.31191Wuhan5662.330.4