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When to Drink Blood Pressure Drugs?
High Blood Pressure
Hypertension has been increasing in incidence, recently. About one in every four adults, around 50 million people in the USA alone have high blood pressure. But many people are unaware that they have the condition. Because it doesn't cause significant symptoms.
Just like what i had been described in my previous post, untreated chronic hypertension can lead to heart disease and stroke. And those are the first and third commonest causes of death in the USA. Hypertension can also damage the kidneys and increase the risk of blindness and dementia. That is why hypertension is referred to as a "silent killer."
In reading of blood pressure, Systolic pressure is the first number in a blood pressure reading and is an indicator of blood pressure when the heart contracts. The second number, the diastolic pressure, reflects pressure when the heart relaxes between beats.
High blood pressure also associates with other major disease such as diabetes and high levels of cholesterol and them, amplify the risk of heart attack and stroke. Changes in lifestyle can therefore help us achieve blood pressure goals besides early treatment.
Treatment for hypertension must begin as early as possible to prevent organ damage and the target of hypertension based on the latest recommendation is at the lowest level possible without any complication related to low blood pressure.
Time To Take Those Pills
Hypertension drugs has been developed from time to time, to get the best regiment for treatment. This disease is long term disease and maybe lifelong disease. So, the compliance of taking drugs maybe low.
Therefore, when your doctor decides what drugs, he/she also arrange the suitable frequency for you in order to get optimal compliance and effect.
Especially for combination drugs or multidrugs regiments.
Recently, there are several researches about time to take hypertension medications. And their results said that taking blood-pressure pills at night, rather than in the morning, may better control hypertension and significantly reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Is that true? Well, The study was five-year study is done by switching morning dose to bedtime dose in patient with hypertension and kidney disease. And some results show that bedtime dose, make tension lower.
Why at night?
From that study, researchers highlighted about the importance of sleep-time blood pressure. Normally. in healthy people, blood pressure lower at night, by 10% to 20%, and higher at early morning, by unknown mechanism, maybe related our body daily rhythm that make arteries more relax.
There were some trial about sleep time blood pressure, and most conclude that sleep time blood pressure as the most sensitive predictor of a person's risk of death from cardiovascular disease over a five-year period. And those that nondippers blood pressure at night are more vulnerable to cardiovascular events.
So, Sleep-time blood pressure is best reduced when medication is taken at bedtime. Thus, it makes the proper timing for dosing.
After more than five years of follow-up of trial, those who took at least one of their blood-pressure pills at night seemed to reap significant benefits. Sixty-two percent had controlled blood pressure over the 24-hour period, compared to 53% of those who took all their pills in the morning. Moreover, only 34% of this group were "nondippers," vs. 62% of the morning-medications group, the study authors said.
And not only lower blood pressure, patients who take pills at night also have lower risk of cardiovascular events such as angina, heart attack, and stroke compare to morning dose.
People most likely to benefit from taking their pills at night include those whose high blood pressure occurs secondary to another condition, such as metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea or other sleep disorders, heart failure or kidney disease and they are most likely to be nondippers.
Things to be aware
First there are lot of kind of hypertension drugs. Some of those drugs maybe is better used in the morning related to physical activity such as diuretic.
When taking diuretics, you will experience increase of urination, it will give a discomfort when taking at night compare at morning.
So, it's better to consult your doctor about this your conditions.
Hypertension has been increasing in incidence, recently. About one in every four adults, around 50 million people in the USA alone have high blood pressure. But many people are unaware that they have the condition. Because it doesn't cause significant symptoms.
Just like what i had been described in my previous post, untreated chronic hypertension can lead to heart disease and stroke. And those are the first and third commonest causes of death in the USA. Hypertension can also damage the kidneys and increase the risk of blindness and dementia. That is why hypertension is referred to as a "silent killer."
In reading of blood pressure, Systolic pressure is the first number in a blood pressure reading and is an indicator of blood pressure when the heart contracts. The second number, the diastolic pressure, reflects pressure when the heart relaxes between beats.
High blood pressure also associates with other major disease such as diabetes and high levels of cholesterol and them, amplify the risk of heart attack and stroke. Changes in lifestyle can therefore help us achieve blood pressure goals besides early treatment.
Treatment for hypertension must begin as early as possible to prevent organ damage and the target of hypertension based on the latest recommendation is at the lowest level possible without any complication related to low blood pressure.
Time To Take Those Pills
Hypertension drugs has been developed from time to time, to get the best regiment for treatment. This disease is long term disease and maybe lifelong disease. So, the compliance of taking drugs maybe low.
Therefore, when your doctor decides what drugs, he/she also arrange the suitable frequency for you in order to get optimal compliance and effect.
Especially for combination drugs or multidrugs regiments.
Recently, there are several researches about time to take hypertension medications. And their results said that taking blood-pressure pills at night, rather than in the morning, may better control hypertension and significantly reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Is that true? Well, The study was five-year study is done by switching morning dose to bedtime dose in patient with hypertension and kidney disease. And some results show that bedtime dose, make tension lower.
Why at night?
From that study, researchers highlighted about the importance of sleep-time blood pressure. Normally. in healthy people, blood pressure lower at night, by 10% to 20%, and higher at early morning, by unknown mechanism, maybe related our body daily rhythm that make arteries more relax.
There were some trial about sleep time blood pressure, and most conclude that sleep time blood pressure as the most sensitive predictor of a person's risk of death from cardiovascular disease over a five-year period. And those that nondippers blood pressure at night are more vulnerable to cardiovascular events.
So, Sleep-time blood pressure is best reduced when medication is taken at bedtime. Thus, it makes the proper timing for dosing.
After more than five years of follow-up of trial, those who took at least one of their blood-pressure pills at night seemed to reap significant benefits. Sixty-two percent had controlled blood pressure over the 24-hour period, compared to 53% of those who took all their pills in the morning. Moreover, only 34% of this group were "nondippers," vs. 62% of the morning-medications group, the study authors said.
And not only lower blood pressure, patients who take pills at night also have lower risk of cardiovascular events such as angina, heart attack, and stroke compare to morning dose.
People most likely to benefit from taking their pills at night include those whose high blood pressure occurs secondary to another condition, such as metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea or other sleep disorders, heart failure or kidney disease and they are most likely to be nondippers.
Things to be aware
First there are lot of kind of hypertension drugs. Some of those drugs maybe is better used in the morning related to physical activity such as diuretic.
When taking diuretics, you will experience increase of urination, it will give a discomfort when taking at night compare at morning.
So, it's better to consult your doctor about this your conditions.
