BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cerebral arterial pulsatility is associated with leukoaraiosis and depends on central arterial pulsatility and arterial stiffness. The effect of antihypertensive drugs on transmission of central arterial pulsatility to the cerebral circulation is unknown, partly because of limited methods of assessment. METHODS In a technique-development pilot study, 10 healthy voluntee...

AIM The three types of calcium channel blocker (CCB), L-, T- and N-type, possess heterogeneous actions on endothelial function and renal microvascular function. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of two CCBs, efonidipine and amlodipine, on renal function and arterial stiffness. METHODS Forty type 2 diabetic patients with hypertension and nephropathy receiving angiotensin receptor ...

Objective: To compare the effects of the ACE inhibitor captopril with the calcium channel blocker amlodipine on serum CRP concentrations in hypertensive type 2 diabetic patients. Methodology: This is a case control study conducted in Al-Wafa Diabetic Center in Mosul. Serum CRP concentrations were measured in two groups of hypertensive type 2 diabetic patients before and after drug administratio...

Recent evidence from our laboratory and others suggests that nitric oxide (NO) is a modulator of in vivo and in vitro oxygen consumption in the murine and canine heart. Therefore, the goal of our study was twofold: to determine whether NO modulates myocardial oxygen consumption in the nonhuman primate heart in vitro and to evaluate whether the seemingly cardioprotective actions of amlodipine ma...

This multicenter study evaluated the efficacy of candesartan cilexetil, an angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonist, used alone or in combination with amlodipine or in combination with amlodipine and hydrochlorothiazide in the treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe essential hypertension. After a 2-week, single-blind, placebo run-in period, patients entered a 12-week, open-label, dose-t...

Several studies have suggested that high blood pressure is associated with the risk of bone loss. Since various antihypertensive drugs are in wide use for the treatment of hypertension, it is important to investigate the influences of these drugs on bone metabolism. Osteoblasts play a pivotal role in the regulation of bone formation. During differentiation, they sequentially express type I coll...

BACKGROUND The Valsartan Antihypertensive Long-term Use Evaluation (VALUE) trial was designed to test the hypothesis that for the same blood-pressure control, valsartan would reduce cardiac morbidity and mortality more than amlodipine in hypertensive patients at high cardiovascular risk. METHODS 15?245 patients, aged 50 years or older with treated or untreated hypertension and high risk of ca...

Hypertensive patients unable to reach blood pressure (BP) targets with antihypertensive monotherapy may be switched to a combination of two medications with complementary modes of action for improved treatment response. This post hoc analysis pools data from 2812 patients, 1891 of whom were not at goal (diastolic BP [DBP] <90 mm Hg) with amlodipine 5 mg (A5) monotherapy who subsequently switche...

Case summary Systemic arterial hypertension is commonly reported in middle-aged-to-older cats. Amlodipine is recommended as the initial antihypertensive drug in cats. In this case report, gingival hyperplasia secondary to the use of amlodipine in a cat is described. Benazepril as a monotherapy was unsuccessful in reducing blood pressure in this cat. After replacement of benazepril by telmisarta...

A novel, simple, accurate, sensitive, reproducible, economical spectroscopic method has been developed and validated for the determination of Nebivolol hydrochloride and S-amlodipine besylate in combined dosage form. The method obeys Beer’s Law in concentration range of 15-35 μg/ml for Nebivolol and 7.5-17.5 μg/ml for S-amlodipine. The method was validated for linearity, range, accuracy, precis...