Why is Hypertension the Most Common Underlying COVID-19 Condition? – Dr.Berg

Why is Hypertension the Most Common Underlying COVID-19 Condition? – Dr.Berg

Why is Hypertension the Most Common Underlying COVID-19 Condition? – Dr.Berg

Why is it that hypertension is the #1 driver of severe COVID-19 symptoms? Find out my theory in this video!

Timestamps:
0:00 hypertension and COVID-19 symptoms
0:15 Coronavirus statistics
1:14 Why is hypertension associated with severe COVID-19 symptoms?
2:38 What causes high blood pressure?
3:17 Putting the pieces of the puzzle together

In this video, I want to talk to you about hypertension and the coronavirus. In a recent survey, 88% of people with COVID-19 had more than one illness. After being put on a ventilator, the mortality rate jumps up to 80%. These are not promising statistics.

Here’s the question: why is high blood pressure the primary driver of severe COVID-19 symptoms? According to one study, 69.1% of people with coronavirus also had high blood pressure. Another study showed that 53% of people coronavirus patients have HBP—it’s always at the top of the list.

It has to do with the ACE2 receptors. ACE2 receptors are on the outside part of the cells—they are like the doors which COVID-19 can get into a cell.

Those who have high blood pressure often take ACE inhibitors. ACE inhibitors create a situation where more of these ACE2 cells or “doors” are created, which allows for more severe COVID-19 infection.

Keep in mind that I am NOT recommending that you come off of your medication.

To reduce your risk of COVID-19, it’s important to get your blood pressure under control. The question is, what causes high blood pressure?

90% of high blood pressure cases are considered “essential” hypertension. What this really means is that the cause is “unknown.” However, the problem might actually be a vitamin D deficiency. Numerous studies have shown that, when you take vitamin D, your blood pressure levels stabilize.

Following this reasoning, it’s not far off to consider that vitamin D deficiency could be the leading cause of coronavirus complications.

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0 -> so here's a question why is hypertension the primary driver of severe symptoms of
6.87 -> COVID-19 in a recent survey of 5700 patients
13.7 -> 88% of them had more than one illness which is actually quite interesting and
20.43 -> the general mortality rate of being put on a ventilator is 88% the statistics
27.51 -> are not very good that you're gonna actually survive the more illnesses that
31.08 -> you have the more risk you are of being put on a ventilator here's my question
36.6 -> why is the most common chronic underlying condition high blood pressure
42.149 -> if you look at one study it's 69 point one percent at another study it's 53
49.559 -> percent it's always at the top of the list of being the most common symptom of
56.27 -> COVID-19 the next one would be obesity that's 42 percent and then we have
62.1 -> diabetes 32% and then we have morbid obesity which is a severe obesity
69.32 -> percent and then 10 percent would be heart disease but why is it the
74.34 -> hypertension there's something called an ace 2 receptor okay
79.2 -> these two receptor is in the outside of your cell it is the door or the portal
86.24 -> where COVID-19 can go into the cell now have you ever heard of something called
92.189 -> ACE inhibitors there's another one called angiotensin receptor blocker
97.2 -> these are types of medication that lower blood pressure what they're finding is
101.759 -> that when people are taking these ACE inhibitors there is a increase of up
108.329 -> regulation okay by 3 to 5 times in other words when you take a drug for a period
115.53 -> of time you develop resistance to it and then what happens it over compensates
122.159 -> and you start developing new receptors now in no way am I telling you to come
128.039 -> off your medication check with your doctor before coming off your medication
132.69 -> because there is some conflicting data on this topic big
136.5 -> point is that this receptor is the door for the virus and what's interesting too
142.32 -> is that the more you have high blood pressure the more you have obesity
146.19 -> diabetes and the more abusive you have as well as cardiovascular disease the
151.83 -> more quantity of ACE2 receptors you're gonna get now I want to just switch
156.81 -> gears for a second and talk about high blood pressure
160.7 -> 90% of all hypertension is essential hypertension what does that mean
167.73 -> essential means they don't know what causes it however if you search a
171.99 -> vitamin D deficiency with hypertension you're gonna find a ton of research and
177.12 -> data that concludes that when you give a patient with hypertension vitamin D
181.8 -> their blood pressure goes down could it be that the real risk factor of having
188.4 -> complications and side effects in being put on a ventilator
191.97 -> is an actual vitamin D deficiency in the first place because if you're trying to
196.11 -> evaluate something you want to take all these pieces of puzzle and see if they
200.1 -> align what does vitamin D do to the lungs well number one it has a potential
206.07 -> to decrease inflammation in your lungs also it has a lot to do with controlling
211.739 -> the T regulatory cells which are involved in suppressing the inflammation
218.67 -> in the lungs in the cytokine storm then you have the other factor involving why
224.94 -> certain viruses are more active in the winter or the fall or the early spring
231.78 -> then the summer could it be just the vitamin D exposure that you're not
236.28 -> getting to protect the immune system certain viruses have this very
241.44 -> interesting strategy of blocking the vitamin D receptor
245.43 -> inside your cells what does that do it's going to block your ability to absorb
251.1 -> vitamin D why would they do that because vitamin D is one of the key
255.45 -> nutrients in controlling your immune system and if they can actually block
259.59 -> that now your susceptibility goes way down the door opens up they can
264.86 -> and replicate anyway I just wanted to tell you my theory and please comment
269.599 -> below on what you think about this topic

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0IxN7gtq8