The purpose of this study is to evaluate the blood pressure lowering effects of an amlodipine/losartan combination treatment and losartan/Hydrochlorothiazide combination treatment in patients with essential hypertension uncontrolled with losartan 100mg monotherapy.
* Quality assurance plan was implemented by site monitoring, including data validation and registry procedures and Source data verification to assess the accuracy, completeness by comparing the data to external data sources (medical records and paper case report forms). * Data dictionary contains the registry, including the source of the variable, coding information (MedDRA ver12.0), and normal ranges. * Statistical analysis were performed using SAS® Version 9.2, SAS institute, Cary, NC, USA
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
199
comparison of different combination of anti-hypertension drug
comparison of different combination of anti-hypertension drug
Change from baseline in Mean Sitting Diastolic Blood Pressure (MSDBP)
Time frame: Baseline, Week 8
Change from baseline in MSDBP
Time frame: Baseline, week 4
Change from baseline Mean Seated Systolic Blood Pressure (MSSBP)
Time frame: Baseline, Week 4 and 8
Blood pressure responder rate
Rate of patients who achieved target blood pressure (MSSBP \< 140 mmHg and MSDBP \< 90 mmHg), or MSSBP decrease \> 20 mmHg from baseline or MSDBP decrease \> 10 mmHg from baseline.
Time frame: Baseline, Week 4 and 8
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