Actual questions of clinical pharmacology by amlodipine: should we prefer the original or a generic drug?

Abstract

Selection of amlodipine (tablets) as a drug based on three basic criteria: clinical efficacy, safety / tolerability and quality is discussed below. The article deals with the successive stages of clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapy from amlodipine tablets (pharmaceutical stage) to clinical response (therapeutic step). An algorithm for evaluating the interchangeability of reference and reproduced preparations containing Amlodipine is presented.

Keywords

• amlodipine
• interchangeability
• the reference
• generics