Timing of high blood pressure medications

Knowing when to take your high blood pressure medication is very important for controlling your high blood pressure. Normal people’s 24-hour blood pressure shows a double peak and a valley, the so-called double peak is the blood pressure peaks at 6-8 o’clock in the morning, 4-6 o’clock in the afternoon is the second peak, and 2-3 o’clock in the early morning is generally lower blood pressure. Hypertensive patients usually 24-hour blood pressure fluctuation is large, some people at night blood pressure does not decrease, showing a non-spoon type blood pressure, and early morning blood pressure is excessively high, manifested as blood pressure morning peak. Hypertension time therapeutics is to choose the appropriate drugs and drug administration time, so that the antihypertensive drug action effect and hypertension occurs in rhythm, the patient 24 hours throughout the stable control of blood pressure, to restore the normal pattern of blood pressure, to reduce blood pressure fluctuations, Andu morning danger and reduce target organ damage, to avoid acute myocardial infarction, stroke and other cardio-cerebral vascular diseases, so we are now often recommended to take high blood pressure medication is in the morning.