The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
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ISSUE1276
December 17, 2007
Two Amlodipine/ARB Combinations for Hypertension
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Two Amlodipine/ARB Combinations for Hypertension
December 17, 2007 (Issue: 1276)
The FDA has approved Exforge (Novartis) and Azor (Daiichi Sankyo), the first combinations of a calcium channel blocker (CCB) with an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) for treatment of hypertension. Amlodipine is the CCB in both products. The ARBs...more
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