Conditions: Hypertension
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 706
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
To demonstrate that the fixed dose combination of telmisartan and amlodipine is more effective in lowering blood pressure.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Telmisartan 80 / Amlodipine 5 for two weeks, then forced titration to Telmisartan 80 / Amlodipine 10 Fixed Dose Combination arm 2: Amlodipine 5 for two weeks, then forced titration to Amlodipine 10

Interventions: intervention 1: Telmisartan 80 intervention 2: Amlodipine 10 intervention 3: Amlodipine 10
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Telmisartan 80 mg intervention 2: Amlodipine 5 for two weeks, then forced titration to Amlodipine 10 intervention 3: Amlodipine 5 for two weeks, then forced titration to Amlodipine 10

Protocol document: