One-Year Safety and Tolerability Study of Azilsartan Medoxomil in Participants With Essential Hypertension

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Hypertension

In brief

This purpose of this study is to evaluate the long-term safety and tolerability of azilsartan medoxomil in individuals with essential hypertension.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00695955

Run by

Takeda

People needed

669

Starts

2007-06-01

Expected to finish

2010-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-04-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diastolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 95 mm Hg and less than or equal to 119 mm Hg. For diabetic subjects and subjects with chronic kidney disease, diastolic blood pressure must be greater than or equal to 85 mm Hg and less than or equal to109 mm Hg).
• Females of childbearing potential who are sexually active must agree to use adequate contraception, and can neither be pregnant nor lactating.
• Clinical laboratory evaluations within the reference range for or deemed not clinically significant by the investigator.

You may not qualify if…

• Systolic blood pressure greater than 185 mm Hg.
• Expected to take angiotensin II receptor blockers other than the study drug.
• Taking more than 2 antihypertensive agents.
• Hypersensitive to angiotensin II receptor blockers, thiazide-type diuretics or sulfonamide-derived compounds.
• Recent history of major cardiovascular event.
• History of moderate to severe heart failure or hypertensive encephalopathy.
• Clinically significant cardiac conduction defects.
• Secondary hypertension of any etiology.
• Known or suspected unilateral or bilateral renal artery stenosis.
• Severe renal dysfunction or disease.
• History of drug abuse or a history of alcohol abuse within the past 2 years.
• Previous history of cancer that has not been in remission for at least 5 years prior to the first dose of study drug..
• Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus.
• Alanine aminotransferase level of greater than 2.5 times the upper limit of normal, active liver disease, or jaundice.
• Serum potassium level of greater than the upper limit of normal.
• Currently is participating in another investigational study or has participated in an investigational study within 30 days prior to enrollment.
• Any other serious disease or condition.
• Randomized in a previous azilsartan medoxomil study.

Where it is running

• Study site — Ozark, Alabama, United States
• Study site — Tallassee, Alabama, United States
• Study site — Long Beach, California, United States
• Study site — Santa Rosa, California, United States
• Study site — Spring Valley, California, United States
• Study site — Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
• Study site — Trumbull, Connecticut, United States
• Study site — Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
• Study site — Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
• Study site — Hollywood, Florida, United States
• Study site — Jacksonville, Florida, United States
• Study site — Miami, Florida, United States
• Study site — Pembroke Pines, Florida, United States
• Study site — Pinellas Park, Florida, United States
• Study site — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Study site — Augusta, Georgia, United States
• Study site — Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, United States
• Study site — Olive Branch, Mississippi, United States
• Study site — Rochester, New York, United States
• Study site — Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
• Study site — Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
• Study site — Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
• Study site — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
• Study site — Akron, Ohio, United States
• Study site — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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