A British study revealed that protection from heart attacks and strokes due to vascular disease is not affected by taking antihypertensive drugs, either in the morning or in the evening.
UK TIME study lead researcher Professor Thomas MacDonald of the University of Dundee in the UK said: “The TIME study is one of the largest cardiovascular studies ever conducted and provides a definitive answer to the question of whether drugs for to lower blood pressure blood should be taken in the morning or evening.
The study also clearly found that heart attacks, strokes and death from vascular disease occurred to a similar extent, regardless of when the antihypertensive drugs were given.
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At the right time, day or night
People with high blood pressure should take antihypertensive medications at an appropriate time of 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 high blood pressure patients of both sexes, in equal proportions, with a mean age of 65 years. And he followed them on average for more than 5 years (some of them 9 years), and found no differences in his results in the occurrence of these complications and repercussions between those taking blood pressure lowering drugs in the evening or morning, and the harm taking these drugs in the evening has not been proven.
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A contradiction … and a long discussion
Interestingly, the findings of this study contradict previous findings which assumed a very significant benefit to the heart and blood vessels by taking medications to treat high blood pressure at night.
And an earlier controversial study, the “Hygia Study,” reported in its findings that taking antihypertensive drugs in the evening, instead of in the morning, largely reduces blood pressure at night, 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 about when patients should take blood pressure medications; In the morning or in the evening.
