Valsartan Versus Amlodipine Effect on Left Ventricular Multidirectional Deformation and Adipocytokines Level

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-04-10
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Aim: To evaluate the effects of Valsartan versus Amlodipine on LV deformation in relation to plasma adiponectin and leptin levels in hypertensive individuals.

Methods: LV strain measured by 2 dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography, plasma levels of adiponectin and leptin was determined in 30 healthy individuals served as control group and in 200 hypertensive patients before and after treatment for three months with either Valsartan 160 mg or amlodipine 10 mg.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Damanhour University
• Collaborator: Tanta University
• Treatments: Amlodipine; Valsartan

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients, of both sexes with mild to moderate essential hypertension (diastolic blood pressure [DBP] >80 and ≤100 mmHg after a 2-week wash-out period, SBP systolic blood pressure>120 and 160 mmHg). Another 30 healthy subjects are enrolled as control group.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with age < 18 years and >65 years and those with two and more antihypertensive medications, those with diabetes, liver or kidney diseases, angina, myocardial infarction or stroke within 6 months, congestive heart failure, neurologic or psychiatric illness, secondary hypertension, known hypersensitivity to the drugs used in the study. also those with conditions that may have caused metabolic alterations within the past year (pregnancy, abdominal surgery, weight gain or loss of more than 3 kg) are excluded.