How much does a high blood pressure shot cost?

At present, there are no vaccination products that have been officially approved for sale in China or even globally, specifically for the prevention of high blood pressure. Naturally, there is no official pricing. All publicity that charges a fee under the banner of "hypertension vaccination" is false information.

In the past two months, I have been working at a community chronic disease education center, and I have met no less than five elderly people who came to inquire. They said that an acquaintance in the circle of friends sold a high blood pressure preventive shot for 368 per shot. Some netizens also said that there are related products on the market in Southeast Asia and Europe. I specifically checked the public information of the drug regulatory authorities of various countries. It is true that no preventive hypertension vaccine has been approved at present. The so-called overseas purchase products are either placebos with a name, or test preparations that are still in the experimental stage, and the risk of injecting them rashly is extremely high.

Why can this rumor spread so widely? In fact, many people confuse the concept of a therapeutic vaccine for hypertension, which is still in the clinical trial stage, with the concept of a "preventive shot." Domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies are indeed developing vaccines related to hypertension, but the fastest-growing ones are still in the Phase III clinical stage, and these vaccines are all for treatment - to put it bluntly, they are prepared for people who already have high blood pressure. After taking them, they may be able to change the frequency of taking antihypertensive drugs from taking them every day to taking an injection every few months, which can improve medication compliance. They are not used to prevent high blood pressure in healthy people at all, and they have not even been launched, let alone priced. There is also a common misunderstanding that some communities will give priority to recommending influenza and pneumococcal vaccines to patients with high blood pressure to prevent superinfection of underlying diseases from aggravating the condition. Some people who spread rumors package these vaccines as "high blood pressure exclusive vaccinations." In fact, the prices of these vaccines themselves range from more than 100 to more than 300, and they have nothing to do with preventing high blood pressure.

If we really want to be honest about whether there will be such products in the future and what the price will be, if there is a research and development institution that develops a preventive hypertension vaccine and successfully gets it approved, the pricing will most likely refer to the standards of similar biological agents. Combined with the medical insurance negotiation policy, it will not be so expensive that ordinary people cannot afford it, but that will be at least several years away. If you are really afraid of high blood pressure now, don't think that one or two shots will cure it once and for all. I have met many elderly people in their 70s and 80s who have very stable blood pressure. They all maintain the habit of walking 6,000 steps a day, eating less salt in vegetables, and not staying up late. They are more effective than vaccinations that have not yet taken effect.