provided consistent and significantly greater blood pressure reduction compared to the respective monotherapies with the 40-80mg/5-10mg formulations allowed 82.7% of patients to achieve their 24hr blood pressure goal (<130/80 mmHg according to the AHA criteria) with the 80mg/10mg formulation.

In addition, results from a recent double-blind, randomised, controlled trial in patients with severe hypertension (TEAMSTA severe HTN) showed that:

TWYNSTA?® reduced systolic blood pressure by a mean of nearly 50 mmHg. This powerful reduction, observed in nearly half of patients, is among the highest blood pressure reduction achieved in antihypertensive trials.

Professor Klaus Dugi, Corporate Senior Vice President Medicine, Boehringer Ingelheim, commented: "We are delighted to receive European approval of TWYNSTA?®. The data show it is effective and well tolerated in a range of hypertensive patients including those with additional risk factors such as diabetes and obesity and we believe that it will provide an important treatment option for both physicians and patients to achieve good blood pressure control."

High blood pressure is the number one risk factor for CV disease and responsible for more deaths than any other single CV risk factor including high cholesterol, diabetes or smoking.A large meta-analysis of 61 studies including about 1 million patients (12.7 million patient years) suggests that a reduction of 2 mmHg in systolic blood pressure decreases the risk of CV events such as myocardial infarction and stroke by 7-10%.

Source: Boehringer Ingelheim