Irbesartan hydrochlorothiazide tablets as antihypertensive drugs, there are many drugs that can be used in combination, depending on the patient’s specific blood pressure level to determine what kind of drugs need to be combined, and the drugs that are often used in combination are calcium antagonists (nifedipine) and beta-blockers (metoprolol).
1. Irbesartan hydrochlorothiazide belongs to the combination of antihypertensive drugs. Irbesartan belongs to the ARB class of antihypertensive drugs, and hydrochlorothiazide belongs to the diuretic class of antihypertensive drugs. So this one drug can achieve two different antihypertensive effects, for many hypertensive patients, this one drug alone can achieve good antihypertensive effect.
2. If the antihypertensive effect is not good, you can consider the joint application of other antihypertensive drugs, the more commonly used are calcium antagonists, beta-blockers. Calcium ion antagonists include nifedipine, amlodipine and cilnidipine, while beta-blockers include metoprolol, sotalol and bisoprolol.
3. However, the specific need for patients to combine which type of drugs, or according to the specific conditions, if the simple blood pressure control is not good, you can consider combining calcium antagonists to strengthen the effect of blood pressure; if the patient is a high blood pressure accompanied by fast heart rate, you can consider combining beta-blockers, lowering blood pressure and at the same time can control the heart rate; if the patient belongs to the refractory hypertension, it may be combined with two types of drugs at the same time.
Patients need to combine what kind of drug treatment, it is recommended to go to the cardiology department, under the guidance of the doctor to use drugs is relatively safer.