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To assess the efficacy of blood pressure lowering and the safety of increasing doses of perindopril and amlodipine combination and to compare them to another validated antihypertensive strategy using valsartan and valsartan combined to amlodipine.
To evaluate the efficacy of setmelanotide on changes in body weight.
The main purpose of this trial is to find out if an investigational drug called setmelanotide (RM-493), which mimics MSH, can help control body weight. The efficacy of setmelanotide will be compared to the efficacy of a placebo during 4 to 8 weeks.
Primary:• To evaluate the proportion of patients with obesity with genetic variants in a specific gene in the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) pathway who achieve a clinically meaningful reduction in body weight in response to setmelanotide at the end…