18 months to ask this question.
Read a paper that mentioned the possibility: certain diabetics meds that down-regulate ACE1 may cause increase in ACE2 expression.
Increased ACE2 expression is fertile ground for SARS.
Think about that.
“Read a paper that mentioned the possibility: certain diabetics meds that down-regulate ACE1 may cause increase in ACE2 expression. Increased ACE2 expression is fertile ground for SARS.”
I could certainly believe that. From the beginning, I’ve always wondered how the virus manages to know if someone has high blood pressure, as it’s unlikely that virus particles carry sphygmomanometers to measure blood pressure - so I figured it must be something else, and meds of course came to mind first.