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What is Lotrel? Lotrel is a brand name for a combination of the drugs amlodipine besylate, a calcium channel blocker, and benazepril hydrochloride, an ACE inhibitor. Lotrel is considered a second or third line treatment for hypertension when other treatments have not worked. Lotrel is brand name owned by Novartis. Read more...Click to read more below

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Novartis's Lotrel site


Reasons Taken

1 patients in the community are taking or have taken Lotrel.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
General health 1 100%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Lotrel.

  10 mg day
  1 Number of Patients: 1  

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Lotrel or how long patients were taking Lotrel before stopping.

Currently taking Lotrel

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Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 1 patient evaluation. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 100% 1

General health

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 1

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 1 individual response. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 1)

  • samantha12
    Mental Symptoms: mild
    Physical Symptoms: none
    Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: none
    346
    VL 113
  • samantha12
  • by samantha12
    Sep 01, 2008
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • General health

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