What is a long-acting drug for hypertension? How to choose short acting drugs?

 At present, the treatment of hypertension is mainly based on medication, and these drugs have long-term and short-term effects. Many people may not know what long-term hypertension drugs are, and even less how to choose drugs. Therefore, the family doctor interviewed Cheng Kanglin, chief physician of the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat sen University, to tell us in detail what long-term hypertension drugs are? How to choose short acting drugs?

What is a long-acting drug for hypertension?

The so-called long-term high blood pressure drugs mainly mean that the time of the drug in the body is relatively long, which can often act for about 24 hours, and some can also act for 25 hours. Dr. Cheng Kanglin thinks that in the treatment of high blood pressure, our preferred drug is long-term antihypertensive drugs, which can ensure a good 24-hour process The blood drug concentration can maintain the patient's blood pressure more smoothly. The representative drugs, such as felodipine sustained-release tablets, amlodipine besylate tablets, Telmisartan Tablets and so on.

Which is better for short acting and long-acting drugs of hypertension?

There are both short-term and long-term drugs for hypertension. However, according to the latest national clinical guidelines, it is recommended to choose long-term antihypertensive drugs to control blood pressure first. The purpose of this is that patients can get a good concentration of antihypertensive drugs. In the process of 24 hours a day, patients' blood pressure can be controlled very smoothly to avoid repeated fluctuations of blood pressure, while short-term antihypertensive drugs are only suitable for patients For very mild patients, this kind of patients can take short acting antihypertensive drugs orally, but the antihypertensive effect of this kind of drugs is not stable, the action time is short, but the onset is slow.

How to choose long-acting and short acting drugs for hypertension?

There are many kinds of long-acting and short acting drugs for hypertension. In the process of clinical blood pressure treatment, we first recommend oral long-acting antihypertensive drugs, so the action time is longer than the short-term effect, so to achieve a good concentration, can better stabilize the patient's blood pressure, and can reduce the frequency of taking drugs. There are many people who are afraid of trouble when taking medicine, so there are many benefits of taking long-acting drugs, such as felodipine sustained-release tablets and Telmisartan Tablets.

Whether long-term or short-term drugs, for the human body are certain side effects, some people will even have some adverse reactions, so we must choose some drugs with small side effects.