• Hypertension:
    • 1 tab OD.
    • Max 10mg/80mg per day

Tablet:

  • 5mg/20mg
  • 10mg/10mg
  • 10mg/20mg
  • Taken without regard to meals
  • Some advice to take at night

Amlodipine: Calcium channel blocker

Atorvastatin: HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor

  • Peripheral oedema
  • Diarrhoea
  • Nasopharingitis
  • UTI
  • Dyspepsia
  • Pain in extremities
  • Dyspepsia
  • Fatigue
  • Palpitations
  • Nausea
  • Musculoskeletal pain
  • Muscle spasms
  • Myalgia
  • Dizziness
  • Insomnia
  • Flushing
  • Pharyngolaryngeal pain
  • DM
  • ALT or AST elevated
  • Cognitive impairment
  • Eczematous eruptions (chronic use in elderly patients)
  • Gynecomastia
  • Hypersensitivity to components/class
  • Active liver disease
  • Unexplained elevated transaminases
  • Myopathy
  • Cyclosporine
  • Dantrolene
  • Gemfibrozil
  • Isocarboxazid
  • Ritonavir

                                   Drug Status

Availability Prescription only
Pregnancy Category C
Breastfeeding Contraindicated
Schedule Not controlled
BRAND NAME STRENGTH FORMULATION PACK SIZE MANUFACTURER DISTRIBUTOR
Caduet 10mg/10mg Tablet 30’s Pfizer Labs Pfizer Labs
Amstat-10 10mg/20mg Tablet 30’s Medisel Kenya Medisel Kenya
Amstat-5 5mg/20mg Tablet 30’s Medisel Kenya Medisel Kenya
Monteer 10mg/10mg Tablet 30’s United Pharma Generics Africa