Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Patients Treated With Caduet (RIGHT)

Viatris

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Hypertension

Treatments

Procedure: Blood samples

Procedure: Blood pressure measurements

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT00297973

A3841038

Details and patient eligibility

About

Compare the reduction in Framingham's predicted 10-year risk of a coronary event (6) in patients with hypertension and at least three other cardiovascular risk factors (including diabetic patients) seen in private practice and randomized to either Caduet or usual care.

Enrollment

1,442 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1.Male or female, 18 years of age or over, 2.Patient with hypertension and at least three other CV risk factors, 3.Hypertension, treated or not, but not at the currently recommended goals (140/90 mmHg for most patients, 130/80 mmHg for patients with diabetes or nephropathy). In case of treated hypertension, patients should be on their current treatment for at least 4 weeks before randomisation,

Exclusion criteria

1. Patient with a history of coronary heart disease, 2.Patients with a history of familial hypercholesterolemia, 3.Patient with malignant HTN, 4.Non-essential hypertension, 5.Known hypersensitivity to dihydropyridines, 6.Patients already receiving a dihydropyridine, 7.Known hypersensitivity to HMG-CoA-reductase inhibitors, 8.Patients currently receiving or who has received a HMG-CoA-reductase within the 3 months prior to selection, 9.Patients currently receiving or who has received a fibric acid, resins, ezetimibe, nicotinic acid and all other drug which is known to affect lipid levels, within 6 weeks prior to selection,