Do blood pressure medications have any effect on COVID 19 infection?

One of the concerns highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic is whether the use of several common hypertension treatment drugs, coming under the class of Angiotensin-Controlling Enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs), raise risks for patients who contract the novel coronavirus. The American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Heart Failure Society of America issued a joint advisory, urging that patients who were currently taking antihypertensive drugs should continue to take them. Experts stress there is no clinical data showing any correlation.  Therefore, the experts recommend that patients who have been taking medicines to treat heart failure, high blood pressure, or ischemic heart disease continue to do so.