Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors are a class of oral medications that act primarily through blockade of the angiotensin converting enzyme. This enzyme converts angiotensin I to angiotensin II.

Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers are commonly used to treat hypertension and/or a range of progressive end-organ diseases. The success of each of these ...

Hypotension is not a specific side effect with ACE inhibitors; rather, it is a broadening of the physiologic action of these drugs that occurs most commonly when a patient becomes volume contracted.

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This prospective case-control study included 85 patients with lung involvement related to the COVID-19 virus and a group of ...

Researchers have tested the efficacy of the angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor perindopril at reducing aortic stiffening and dilatation—two of the most serious complications of MFS ...

What was needed was a simple quantitative assay for this enzyme. With this in mind, I developed a spectrophotometric assay to purify rabbit lung ACE (ref. 5) and to study its enzymatic properties ...

Body-weight cycling, sometimes referred to as yo-yo dieting, may be harmful to the kidneys for people with type 1 diabetes, ...