Cardiovascular risk of essential hypertension: influence of class, number, and treatment-time regimen of hypertension medications

RC Hermida, DE Ayala, A Mojon… - Chronobiology …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
A number of observational studies have found that treated hypertensive patients, even those
with controlled clinic blood pressure (BP), might have poorer prognosis than untreated …

Role of time-of-day of hypertension treatment on the J-shaped relationship between blood pressure and cardiovascular risk

RC Hermida, DE Ayala, A Mojon… - Chronobiology …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Several previous studies found that too great a reduction of clinic blood pressure (BP) by
treatment increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, whereas moderate reduction …

Effects of time-of-day of hypertension treatment on ambulatory blood pressure and clinical characteristics of patients with type 2 diabetes

A Moya, JJ Crespo, DE Ayala, MT Rios… - Chronobiology …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Generally, hypertensive patients ingest all their blood pressure (BP)-lowering agents in the
morning. However, many published prospective trials have reported clinically meaningful …

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 …

Treatment-time regimen of hypertension medications significantly affects ambulatory blood pressure and clinical characteristics of patients with resistant hypertension

RC Hermida, MT Ríos, JJ Crespo, A Moya… - Chronobiology …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Patients with resistant hypertension (RH) are at greater risk for stroke, renal insufficiency,
and cardiovascular disease (CVD) events than are those for whom blood pressure (BP) is …

Administration-time-dependent effects of hypertension treatment on ambulatory blood pressure in patients with chronic kidney disease

JJ Crespo, L Piñeiro, A Otero, C Castiñeira… - Chronobiology …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Many published prospective trials have reported clinically meaningful morning-evening,
treatment-time differences in the blood pressure (BP)-lowering efficacy, duration of action …

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 …

New perspectives on the definition, diagnosis, and treatment of true arterial hypertension

RC Hermida, MH Smolensky, A Mojon… - Expert opinion on …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Office blood pressure measurements (OBPM), still used today for diagnosis and
management of hypertension, fail to reveal clinically important features of the mostly …

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 …