I was reading a short article in something the other day, think it was Women’s World maybe?, anyway, the article was saying that it is better to take aspirin in the evenings than in the morning when taking it as a prescription drug to treat high blood pressure.

That caught my attention, since my dad is on aspirin for high blood pressure treatment, so I went looking for more information.  Sure enough, a 2002 article at WebMD starts out with:

“Taking aspirin at the right time may be the key to preventing heart attacks, stroke, and even high blood pressure. The common yet potent drug works best at bedtime, a Spanish study shows.”

The suspicion is that the body absorbs the aspirin more readily when the medicine is taken in the morning, giving it a longer chance to work on lowering blood pressure if taken at night just before bedtime.

My dad has always been taking the aspirin in the mornings, since I had no idea it made any difference, but now that I see that maybe it does, I have changed him to an evening dose.

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