Delayed viral clearance and exacerbated airway hyperinflammation in hypertensive COVID-19 patients

Abstract In COVID-19, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases have emerged as major risk factors for critical disease progression. Concurrently, the impact of the main anti-hypertensive therapies, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB), on COVID-19 severity is controversially discussed. By combining clinical data, single-cell sequencing data of airway samples andin vitroexperiments, we assessed the cellular and pathophysiological changes in COVID-19 driven by cardiovascular disease and its treatment options. Anti-hypertensive ACEi or ARB therapy, was not associated with an altered expression of SARS-CoV-2 entry receptorACE2in nasopharyngeal epithelial cells and thus presumably does not change susceptibility for SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, we observed a more critical progress in COVID-19 patients with hypertension associated with a distinct inflammatory predisposition of immune cells. While ACEi treatment was associated with dampened COVID-19-related hyperinflammation and intrinsic anti-viral responses, under ARB treatment enhanced epithelial-immune cell interactions were observed. Macrophages and neutrophils of COVID-19 patients with hypertension and cardiovascular comorbidities, in particular under ARB treatment, exhibited higher expression ofCCL3, CCL4, and its receptorCCR1, which associated with critical COVID-19 progression. Overall, these results provide a potential explanation for the adverse COVID-19 course in patients with cardiovascular disease, i.e. an augmented immune response in critical cells for the disease course, and might suggest a beneficial effect of clinical ACEi treatment in hypertensive COVID-19 patients..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 08. Okt. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Trump, Saskia [VerfasserIn]
Lukassen, Soeren [VerfasserIn]
Anker, Markus S. [VerfasserIn]
Chua, Robert Lorenz [VerfasserIn]
Liebig, Johannes [VerfasserIn]
Thürmann, Loreen [VerfasserIn]
Corman, Victor [VerfasserIn]
Binder, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Loske, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Klasa, Christina [VerfasserIn]
Krieger, Teresa [VerfasserIn]
Hennig, Bianca P. [VerfasserIn]
Messingschlager, Marey [VerfasserIn]
Pott, Fabian [VerfasserIn]
Kazmierski, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Twardziok, Sven [VerfasserIn]
Albrecht, Jan Philipp [VerfasserIn]
Eils, Jürgen [VerfasserIn]
Hadzibegovic, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Lena, Alessia [VerfasserIn]
Heidecker, Bettina [VerfasserIn]
Goffinet, Christine [VerfasserIn]
Kurth, Florian [VerfasserIn]
Witzenrath, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Völker, Maria Theresa [VerfasserIn]
Müller, Sarah Dorothea [VerfasserIn]
Liebert, Uwe Gerd [VerfasserIn]
Ishaque, Naveed [VerfasserIn]
Kaderali, Lars [VerfasserIn]
Sander, Leif-Erik [VerfasserIn]
Laudi, Sven [VerfasserIn]
Drosten, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Eils, Roland [VerfasserIn]
Conrad, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Landmesser, Ulf [VerfasserIn]
Lehmann, Irina [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2020.09.22.20199471

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XBI018806686