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Q SHOULD I TAKE MY BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICINE IN THE MORNING OR AT NIGHT?

A Current guidelines for many antihypertensive medicines don’t specify what time of day to take them. However, a new study of 20,000 patients has shown that taking antihypertensive medicine at bedtime improves blood pressure control and nearly halves cardiovascular deaths when compared with morning dosing. The patients were randomised into two groups, either taking their daily dose at bedtime or after waking in the morning, and were followed

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