US FDA Panel Will Reckon With Need For Diabetes Drug CV Risk Assessments
Executive Summary
Cardiovascular and non-CV safety findings from completed outcomes trials to date for eight drugs, as well as the relative paucity of preapproval CV data available for anti-diabetic agents prior to a December 2008 guidance that mandated dedicated risk assessments, may inform advisory committee's view on continuing need for large safety trials.
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