Sanofi's Oral Type 1 Diabetes Drug Approval May Hinge On Ketoacidosis Management
Executive Summary
US FDA also questions composite efficacy endpoint used in one of the phase III trials as sotagliflozin reaches advisory committee in attempt to become first approved oral type 1 diabetes treatment. Sanofi says that type 1 diabetes patients already manage DKA risk because it is inherent to their condition and patients did not seem bothered by the instructions to handle DKA.
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