Conditions: Hypertension
Keywords: Hypertension, Aliskiren, Ramipril
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 1613
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study is designed to investigate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of aliskiren 300 mg, 150 mg and 75 mg when compared to ramipril 5 mg in patients with essential hypertension.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Aliskiren 300 mg once daily arm 2: Aliskiren 150 mg once daily arm 3: Aliskiren 75 mg once daily arm 4: Ramipril 5 mg once daily

Interventions: intervention 1: Aliskiren intervention 2: Ramipril
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Aliskiren intervention 2: comparator

Protocol document: