A Clinical Study to Compare Long-term Efficacy and Safety of an Aliskiren Based Regimen to a Hydrochlorothiazide Based Treatment Regimen With Optional Addition of Amlodipine

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2006-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study is designed to compare the long-term efficacy and safety of an aliskiren based regimen to an HCTZ based treatment regimen with optional addition of amlodipine in patients with essential hypertension

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Novartis
• Treatments: Amlodipine; Hydrochlorothiazide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with essential hypertension

Exclusion Criteria:

• Severe hypertension

• History or evidence of a secondary form of hypertension

• History of myocardial infarction.

• Other protocol-defined inclusion exclusion criteria also apply.