Telmisartan, amlodipine; 40mg/5mg, 40mg/10mg, 80mg/5mg, 80mg/10mg; tabs. Take once daily. Initial therapy: 40/5mg or 80/5mg; may titrate at 2-week intervals to max 80/10mg. Add-on therapy ...
Patients and Methods: After a 2-week placebo washout period, 326 patients with essential hypertension were randomised to receive amlodipine 5mg once daily or candesartan cilexetil 8mg once daily ...
Self-measured SBP and DBP were more reduced by amlodipine than by candesartan cilexetil after 12 weeks of treatment. The mean difference between the treatments showed self-measured DBP to be ...