2.1 General Considerations
The recommended starting dose of PRESTALIA is 3.5/2.5 mg once daily.
Adjust dosage according to blood pressure goals. In general, wait 7 to 14 days between titration steps. The maximum recommended dose is 14/10 mg once daily.
PRESTALIA may be used as initial therapy if a patient is likely to need multiple drugs to achieve blood pressure goals.
Consider use in patients unable to achieve adequate antihypertensive effect with amlodipine monotherapy because of dose-limiting peripheral edema caused by amlodipine [see Adverse Reactions (6.1)].
PRESTALIA may be taken with or without food [see Clinical Pharmacology (12.3)].
Administered as monotherapy, perindopril erbumine is an effective treatment for hypertension in once-daily doses ranging from 4 mg to 16 mg daily but data are lacking to link these doses of perindopril erbumine to doses of PRESTALIA. Amlodipine is effective in once-daily doses of 5 mg and 10 mg. Adverse reactions related to perindopril are generally uncommon and independent of dose, while those related to amlodipine are a mixture of dose-dependent phenomena (primarily peripheral edema) and dose-independent phenomena, the former much more common than the latter [see Adverse Reactions (6)].