Bedtime hypertension treatment improves cardiovascular risk reduction: the Hygia Chronotherapy Trial

RC Hermida, JJ Crespo… - European heart …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Aims The Hygia Chronotherapy Trial, conducted within the clinical primary care
setting, was designed to test whether bedtime in comparison to usual upon awakening …

Hypertension: New perspective on its definition and clinical management by bedtime therapy substantially reduces cardiovascular disease risk

RC Hermida, DE Ayala, JR Fernandez… - European journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Diagnosis of hypertension—elevated blood pressure (BP) associated with increased
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk—and its management for decades have been based …

Influence of circadian time of hypertension treatment on cardiovascular risk: results of the MAPEC study

RC Hermida, DE Ayala, A Mojón… - Chronobiology …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Clinical studies have documented morning-evening, administration-time differences of
several different classes of hypertension medications in blood pressure (BP)-lowering …

Chronotherapy with conventional blood pressure medications improves management of hypertension and reduces cardiovascular and stroke risks

RC Hermida, DE Ayala, MH Smolensky… - Hypertension …, 2016 - nature.com
Correlation between blood pressure (BP) and target organ damage, vascular risk and long-
term patient prognosis is greater for measurements derived from around-the-clock …

Sleep-time blood pressure: unique sensitive prognostic marker of vascular risk and therapeutic target for prevention

RC Hermida, DE Ayala, MH Smolensky… - Sleep medicine …, 2017 - Elsevier
Correlation between blood pressure (BP) and target organ damage, vascular risk, and long-
term patient prognosis is stronger for measurements derived from around-the-clock …

Blood pressure medication should not be routinely dosed at bedtime. We must disregard the data from the HYGIA project

R Kreutz, SE Kjeldsen, M Burnier, K Narkiewicz… - Blood …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Because they were intrigued by the results, many colleagues and journalists have made us
aware of the paper “Bedtime hypertension treatment improves cardiovascular risk reduction …

Treatment of hypertension with chronotherapy: is it time of drug administration?

PM Stranges, AM Drew, P Rafferty… - Annals of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To review evidence for dosing antihypertensives at bedtime and possible
cardiovascular risk reduction. Data Sources: A PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Controlled …

Bedtime versus morning use of antihypertensives for cardiovascular risk reduction (BedMed): protocol for a prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded end-point …

SR Garrison, MR Kolber, GM Allan, J Bakal, L Green… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Sleep-time blood pressure correlates more strongly with adverse cardiovascular
events than does daytime blood pressure. The BedMed trial evaluates whether bedtime …

Perspectives on the chronotherapy of hypertension based on the results of the MAPEC study

F Portaluppi, MH Smolensky - Chronobiology international, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Appreciation of chronotherapy in hypertension continues to lag, despite clear
demonstrations by many studies of (i) clinically relevant dosing-time differences of the …

Cardiovascular risk of resistant hypertension: dependence on treatment-time regimen of blood pressure–lowering medications

DE Ayala, RC Hermida, A Mojon… - Chronobiology …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
In resistant hypertension, ingesting one or more blood pressure (BP)-lowering medications
at bedtime is associated with significant reduction of sleep-time BP, a sensitive prognostic …