A British study revealed that protection from heart attacks and strokes due to vascular disease is not affected by taking antihypertensive drugs, whether in the morning or in the evening.
Lead researcher in the British TIME study, Professor Thomas MacDonald, from the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom, said: “The TIME study is one of the largest cardiovascular studies ever conducted, and provides a definitive answer to the question of whether blood pressure lowering drugs should be taken. blood in the morning or evening.
The study also clearly found that heart attacks, stroke, and death from vascular disease occurred to a similar degree, regardless of when the antihypertensive drugs were administered.
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At the right time, either day or night
People with high blood pressure should take antihypertensive medications at an appropriate time of the day (night or day).
For its part, the European Heart Association summarized the description of the British Time study by saying that it was a large prospective randomized study, conducted to test whether evening doses of antihypertensive drugs improved major cardiovascular outcomes, compared to morning doses.
It included more than 21,000 patients with high blood pressure of both sexes, in an equal proportion, with an average age of 65 years. And she followed them for an average of more than 5 years (some of them 9 years), and she did not find a difference in her results in the occurrence of these complications and repercussions between those who took blood pressure lowering drugs in the evening or morning, and the harm of taking these drugs in the evening was not proven.
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A contradiction… and a long discussion
It is noteworthy that the results of this study contradict previous results that assumed a very significant benefit to the heart and blood vessels, by taking medications to treat high blood pressure at night.
Also, a previous controversial study, the “Hygia Study”, reported in its results that taking antihypertensive drugs in the evening, instead of in the morning, reduces blood pressure during the night to a large extent, and that this has a greater protective effect for patients in reducing the occurrence of relapses in cardiovascular health in the future.
There has long been an inconclusive debate in the cardiology community regarding when patients should take blood pressure medications; In the morning or evening.