Praluent Launch Brings Clinical Practice Challenges
Executive Summary
Despite enthusiasm about PCSK9 class, the prescribing community will have to wrestle with patient-selection criteria, uncertainty about very low LDL levels and a lack of outcomes data for Sanofi and Regeneron’s alirocumab.
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