Conditions: Hypertension
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 132
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This is a multi-centre, randomised, double-blind, active-controlled, parallel-group comparative trial to compare the fixed dose combination (FDC) of telmisartan 80 mg + hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg and amlodipine 5 mg (T80/A5/H12.5 mg) to telmisartan 80 mg+ hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg (T80/H12.5 mg) in blood pressure lowering effect at week 8, the end of the double-blind period in essential hypertensive patients who fail to respond adequately to telmisartan 80 mg+ hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg.

Patients are assigned to one of the two groups after a 6-week open-label run-in period taking T80/H12.5 mg.

In addition the long-term safety of telmisartan 80 mg+ amlodipine 5 mg+ hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg will be evaluated in a 52-week extension period.

In the 52-week open label extension period patients who are assigned to the T80/A5/H12.5 mg group continue the T80/A5/H12.5 mg therapy, and patients who are assigned to the T80/ /H12.5 mg group change to the T80/A5/H12.5 mg therapy.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: telmisartan 80 mg + hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) 12.5 mg fixed dose combination (FDC) and amlodipine 5 mg capsule (after the 8-week double-blind period, patients will continue the 52-week open label extension period taking 1 telmisartan 80 mg and hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 FDC tablet and 1 amlodipine 5 mg tablet) arm 2: telmisartan 80 mg + HCTZ FDC tablet and placebo matching amlodipine 5 mg capsule (after the 8-week double-blind period, patients will continue the 52-week open label extension period taking 1 telmisartan 80 mg and hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 FDC tablet and 1 amlodipine 5 mg tablet)

Interventions: intervention 1: placebo intervention 2: telmisartan + HCTZ intervention 3: telmisartan + HCTZ intervention 4: amlodipine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: placebo matching amlodipine capsule intervention 2: FDC tablet intervention 3: FDC tablet intervention 4: capsule

Protocol document: