People with high blood pressure tend to suffer from a phenomenon called “non-dipping”, in which their blood pressure does not substantially decrease during sleep as it does in healthy people, the researchers said in background information.
(dailyRx News) Patients who take their blood pressure medications at bedtime may wake up with a lower risk of diabetes.
In surprising new research, experts report that the timing of taking your blood pressure medicine could have a big impact on whether or not you develop type 2 diabetes.
It stood to reason, then, that a medication regimen that more tightly controls a hypertensive’s blood pressure while he or she sleeps might help to at least forestall the development of Type 2 diabetes.
June Davison, the British Heart Foundation’s Senior Cardiac Nurse, said: “This is an interesting study that raises questions about the best time people should take blood pressure medications but more research is needed to confirm these findings”.
The clinical trial involved more than 2,000 people who had high blood pressure but not diabetes.
These patients were divided into two groups. None of these patients had type 2 diabetes at the study’s start.
When participants were followed up several years later, those who took their pills at bedtime were found to have significantly lower average blood pressure when asleep and a steeper reduction in blood pressure.
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In the first paper, the authors detail their work proving the concept that reducing BP during hours of sleep represents a target for intervention to prevent new cases of diabetes.
After accounting for other factors that can influence a person’s likelihood of developing diabetes-including waist circumference, an individual’s fasting glucose and whether or not he or she had chronic kidney disease-the researchers concluded that shifting medication-taking from morning to night drove down the average subject’s likelihood of developing diabetes by 57 percent.