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What is Amlodipine?

Amlodipine is a calcium channel blocker used for the treatment of hypertension, angina, and for angina due to coronary artery disease in patients without heart failure of an ejection fraction of less than 40%.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Elevated blood pressure 227 50 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_none Efficacy_cant_tell
Hypertension 195 28 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 47 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Raynaud's phenomenon 10 3 Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight
Raynaud's Disease 9 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Angina pain 7 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate

See all 465 patients currently taking Amlodipine

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Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking Amlodipine. See all 19 dosages ►

  daily 2.5mg as needed 10 mg weekly 2.5 mg daily 5 mg daily 7.5 mg daily 10 mg daily 15 mg daily 20 mg daily 25 mg daily
  2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 54 Number of Patients: 54 191 Number of Patients: 191 2 Number of Patients: 2 211 Number of Patients: 211 3 Number of Patients: 3 8 Number of Patients: 8 2 Number of Patients: 2  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Amlodipine (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 51   Doctor's advice: 49%
Side effects too severe 22   Side effects too severe: 21%
Did not seem to work 16   Did not seem to work: 15%
Other 13   Other: 13%
Course of treatment ended 10   Course of treatment ended: 10%
Change in health plan coverage 3   Change in health plan coverage: 3%
Personal research 2   Personal research: 2%
Expense 2   Expense: 2%
Not indicated 2   Not indicated: 2%

See all 100 patients who’ve stopped taking Amlodipine

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Amlodipine

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Stopped Taking Amlodipine

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Amlodipine

Always
 85 84%
Usually
 9 9%
Sometimes
 2 2%
Never
 5 5%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Amlodipine

Very
 3 3%
Somewhat
 3 3%
A little
 10 10%
Not at all
 85 84%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Amlodipine

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 1 2%
$25-49
 4 7%
< $25
 49 91%

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Report created on May 25, 2012.