After taking antihypertensive drugs for a year, even if the blood pressure control is stable, you can’t stop taking them. Hypertension is a chronic disease, there is no cure at present, you need to take antihypertensive drugs for a long time or even for life, to control the blood pressure in the target range, in order to reduce the damage of the heart, brain, kidney target organs, to prevent the occurrence of various complications of hypertension, and to improve the prognosis of hypertensive patients. After taking antihypertensive drugs to control blood pressure in the target range, it is necessary to continue to take antihypertensive drugs for a long time in order to keep the blood pressure stable for a long time. If blood pressure is stabilized and antihypertensive drugs are discontinued, most patients will have their blood pressure return to its original level or even higher than before. Therefore, when using antihypertensive drugs initially, it is important to let patients understand the long-term nature of taking antihypertensive drugs to treat high blood pressure, and not to arbitrarily reduce the dosage or stop using them.