id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-271957-osaycpe8 Zuin, Marco Arterial hypertension and risk of death in patients with COVID-19 infection: systematic review and meta-analysis 2020-04-11 .txt text/plain 1196 73 46 title: Arterial hypertension and risk of death in patients with COVID-19 infection: systematic review and meta-analysis Also other recent investigations have reported a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and a direct association between the severity of COVID-19 infection [2] . However, to the best of our knowledge, no previous meta-analyses have globally estimated the risk of death in hypertensive patients with COVID-19 infection. We therefore perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the risk of death in COVID-19 infection patients with and without HT. The analysis was conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement (Supplementary file 1) [3] . Our brief meta-analysis demonstrated that patients with COVID-19 infection and HT have a significant high mortality risk. Prevalence of comorbidities in the novel Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) infection: a systematic review and metaanalysis ./cache/cord-271957-osaycpe8.txt ./txt/cord-271957-osaycpe8.txt