Injectables for high blood pressure are in the works. Could they replace daily pills?

Clinical trials look promising, and if these drugs are approved, would change how we manage high blood pressure. But there’s much we don’t know about these injectables. About a third of adults have high blood pressure .

Two-thirds of these have uncontrolled high blood pressure. A key driver of poor blood pressure control is people not taking their tablets as prescribed. Tablets have been used to treat high blood pressure for decades.

But about half of people prescribed them stop taking them in the first year. Others don’t take their tablets reliably. Tablets for high blood pressure, or hypertension, are short-acting.

So they need to be taken at least once a day. But in recent clinical trials, injectable treatments have reduced blood pressure for up to six months..