title: Antihypertensive efficacy of cilazapril 2.5 and 5.0 mg once-daily versus placebo on office blood pressure and 24-hour blood pressure profile.
abstract: In a double-blind, randomized, multicenter study the antihypertensive efficacy of cilazapril 5.0 and 2.5 mg once daily vs. placebo was examined on 180 ambulatory hypertensive subjects with supine diastolic office blood pressure (OBP) > or = 95 and < or = 115 mm Hg: a 4-week, single-blind, placebo period was followed by a 4-week double-blind treatment period. At the beginning and end of the latter, OBP measurements and ambulatory 24-h BP monitoring (ABPM) were both carried out on two different days (3 +/- 1), whereby each time two 24-h BP recordings were made using SpaceLabs 90202. Measurements were made every 30 min, and actual waking and sleeping phase evaluation was done using diary entries. White coat hypertensive patients were excluded by the ambulatory BP (ABP) inclusion criterion: mean diastolic 24-h BP > or = 85 mm Hg, or frequency of measurements > 90 mm Hg > or = 35%. One-hundred eighty patients were included in the study. Safety was evaluated in 170 of these patients, and efficacy on OBP in 162. Twenty-four-hour BP recordings that were amenable to analysis were available in the case of 146 patients (average age 56 +/- 10 years, 56 women, 90 men). The results of the main target variable for OBP, namely responder rates, were in the three treatment groups: placebo, 39.6%; cilazapril 2.5 mg, 55.6%; and cilazapril 5.0 mg, 65.5%.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cardiology and Clinical Research, Regensburg, Germany.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Prager
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Prager
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects*; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D017315:Cilazapril / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004311:Double-Blind Method; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009819:Office Visits; D015990:Placebo Effect; D016037:Single-Blind Method
chemical_list: D017315:Cilazapril