Enrollment will be complete next year for firm's seven-center, $3.2 mil. study to detect asymptomatic heart disease among diabetics using firm's test kit. The randomized, 1,000-patient DIAD trial (detection of ischemia in asypmtomatic diabetics) is being funded by both DuPont and Fujisawa Healthcare. Cardiolite is the only heart imaging agent approved by FDA for both the evaluation of the heart function and perfusion, the firm notes
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