{"id":217945,"date":"2025-07-15T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/clinical-trial-shows-taking-blood-pressure-medication-at-night-improves-nocturnal-and-daytime-control"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:10:14","slug":"clinical-trial-shows-taking-blood-pressure-medication-at-night-improves-nocturnal-and-daytime-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/clinical-trial-shows-taking-blood-pressure-medication-at-night-improves-nocturnal-and-daytime-control","title":{"rendered":"Clinical trial shows taking blood pressure medication at night improves nocturnal and daytime control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clinical-trial-shows-taking-blood-pressure-medication-at-night-improves-nocturnal-and-daytime-control.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research led by Sichuan University in China has revealed that bedtime antihypertensive medication dosing improves nocturnal blood pressure control over morning dosing in patients with hypertension.<\/p>\n<p>Hypertension is a major global health challenge. In China, nearly 300 million individuals live with elevated blood pressure and fewer than 17% achieve adequate control. Nocturnal pressure is often the most difficult to manage and can be a better predictor of heart attack and stroke than daytime readings.<\/p>\n<p>Previous studies have examined the optimal timing for antihypertensive medication with conflicting evidence and substantial variability in study outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research led by Sichuan University in China has revealed that bedtime antihypertensive medication dosing improves nocturnal blood pressure control over morning dosing in patients with hypertension. Hypertension is a major global health challenge. In China, nearly 300 million individuals live with elevated blood pressure and fewer than 17% achieve adequate control. Nocturnal pressure is often [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}