Treatment of essential hypertension; Treatment of renal disease in patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus with proteinuria > 0.5 g/ day as part of an antihypertensive treatment; Reduction of risk of stroke in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy documented by ECG; Treatment of chronic heart failure (in patients ≥ 60 years), when treatment with ACE inhibitors is not considered suitable due to incompatibility, especially cough, or contraindication.