Cardiac Outcomes Studies For Diabetes Drugs Pose Trial Design Challenges
Executive Summary
Although FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee is calling for large, pre-approval safety trials to detect cardiovascular risk for diabetes drugs, the panel noted that conducting those trials are fraught with confounding variables
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