Short-acting antihypertensive drugs are drugs that have a short half-life and do not maintain their antihypertensive effect for a long time after taking them. Short-acting antihypertensive drugs have a short half-life and do not last long, usually only a few hours, but short-acting antihypertensive drugs tend to work faster, within a few minutes or half an hour can play a role in lowering blood pressure, commonly used short-acting antihypertensive drugs are nifedipine tablets, captopril, metoprolol tartrate and so on. It should be noted that short-acting antihypertensive drugs usually can not be used for routine blood pressure control in patients with hypertension, but because of its fast onset of action and rapid disappearance of drug effects, it still has its value for use in patients with transient elevated blood pressure or large fluctuations in blood pressure.