Conditions: Hypertension
Keywords: High blood pressure, hypertension, aliskiren, low sodium diet
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Enrollment: 132
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study will compare the effects of high and low level sodium (salt) diets on blood pressure in patients with hypertension (high blood pressure) who are taking aliskiren 300 mg.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Patients on low sodium diet ( \<= 100 mmol/day) for the first 4 weeks and high sodium (\>= 200 mmol/day) diet for the next 4 weeks. \[with Aliskiren 300 mg\] arm 2: Patients on high sodium (\>= 200 mmol/day) diet for the first 4 weeks and on low sodium diet ( \<= 100 mmol/day) for the next 4 weeks. \[with Aliskiren 300 mg\]

Interventions: intervention 1: Aliskiren
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None

Protocol document: