When it comes to taking blood pressure meds, it may be better to be night person than a morning person. HealthDay reports that researchers at the bioengineering and chronobiology laboratories at the University of Vigo, Spain randomly assigned 2,156 men and women with high blood pressure (average age 56) to one of two treatment groups. One group took their blood-pressure medications at bedtime, and the other took it in the morning. The researchers monitored the volunteers' blood pressure at 20- and 30-minute intervals, depending on time of day, for 48 hours at least once a year for five years. They found that, of those who took at least one of their blood-pressure pills at night, 62 percent had controlled blood pressure over the 24-hour period, compared to 53 percent of those who took all their pills in the morning. Wait, there's more: Those who routinely took at least one of their blood-pressure medicines at night experienced only one-third of the cardiovascular events — including angina, stroke and heart attack — as the morning people.
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Well it seems obvious that if one spaces out their dosage throughout the day the blood level would be more consistent. The problem I see is that they didn’t really monitor the subjects often enough to account for normal variations.
Also leaves open the question of what to do if you only need to take One pill a day. Do you split it?
Never the less, the purported improved statistics are intriguing
I HAD TO GET OFF OF MY HEART (BLOOD PRESSURE) DRUG–LISINOPRIL 5MG–(AND I ONLY TOOK IT AT NIGHT)– I WAS EXTREMELY WEAK AND VERY DIZZY ON IT BY BREAKFAST TIME. NOW I FEEL LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS WITHOUT IT–AND MY BLOOD PRESSURE IS FINE!!
That’s fine as long as your blood pressure medication is not hydrochlorothiazide a common diuretic. You will be up all night peeing if you take it at bedtime.