COZAAR COMP

Country: Ireland

Language: English

Source: HPRA (Health Products Regulatory Authority)

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Active ingredient:

LOSARTAN POTASSIUM HYDROCHOLOTHIAZIDE

Available from:

IPS Healthcare Limited

Dosage:

50/12.5 Milligram

Pharmaceutical form:

Film Coated Tablet

Authorization date:

2010-10-08

Summary of Product characteristics

                                SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
1 NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT
Cozaar Comp 50mg/12.5mg film-coated tablets
2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION
Each tablet contains 50 mg of losartan potassium and 12.5 mg of hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ).
Cozaar Comp 50 mg/12.5 mg: each tablet contains 63.13 mg lactose monohydrate.
For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
3 PHARMACEUTICAL FORM
Film coated tablet
_Product imported from the UK:_
Yellow, oval film-coated tablets marked 717 on one side and plain or scored on the other.
The scoreline is only to facilitate breaking for ease of swallowing and not to divide into equal doses.
4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS
4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS
Cozaar Comp is indicated for the treatment of essential hypertension in patients whose blood pressure is not
adequately controlled on losartan or hydrochlorothiazide alone.
4.2 POSOLOGY AND METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION
Cozaar Comp may be administered with other antihypertensive agents.
Cozaar Comp tablets should be swallowed with a glass of water
Cozaar Comp may be administered with or without food.
Hypertension
Losartan and hydrochlorothiazide is not for use as initial therapy, but in patients whose blood pressure is not adequately
controlled by losartan potassium or hydrochlorothiazide alone.
Dose titration with the individual components (losartan and hydrochlorothiazide) is recommended.
When clinically appropriate direct change from monotherapy to the fixed combination may be considered in patients
whose blood pressure is not adequately controlled.
The
usual
maintenance
dose
of
Cozaar
Comp
is
one
tablet
of
Cozaar
Comp 50 mg/12.5 mg
(losartan 50 mg/HCTZ 12.5 mg)
once
daily.
For
patients
who
do
not
respond
adequately
to
Cozaar
Comp 50 mg/12.5 mg, the dosage may be increased to one tablet of Cozaar Comp 100 mg/25 mg (lo
                                
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