Antihypertensive drugs include long-acting and short-acting categories, long-acting drugs can play a role in about 1 to 2 hours after taking, need to be used for a long time, short-acting drugs take effect in about 20 minutes.
Long-acting antihypertensive drugs after taking 1~2 hours or so will play the effect of lowering blood pressure, the use of two weeks or so can make the blood pressure gradually stabilized, need to be taken for a long time in order to achieve the purpose of controlling blood pressure, such as fosinopril, timosartan and other medications, during the period of time you can not change the drug or it will affect the effect of the drug.
The use of short-acting antihypertensive drugs such as lynopril, captopril and other drugs, after taking about 20 minutes will play a role in the effect of such drugs to lower blood pressure faster, but the maintenance of the effect is also relatively short, generally used for blood pressure to control the rapid increase in blood pressure, is not recommended as a long-term control of blood pressure medication.
When using long-acting antihypertensive drugs or short-acting antihypertensive drugs, you must strictly follow the doctor’s instructions, control the use of dosage and method of use, and not unauthorized use.