At Liraglutide Panel Review, A Call For CV Studies To Look Beyond MACE

If cardiovascular studies are required for non-cardiac drugs, they should be focused on specific signals of heart-related concern that may not include ischemic events, advisory committee cardiologists say during review of Novo Nordisk’s Saxenda for obesity.

Cardiovascular outcomes trials for non-cardiac drugs should be “mechanistically sensitive” to the potential safety concerns posed by a particular product and not automatically focused on the traditional endpoint of major ischemic events, cardiology experts on FDA’s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee agreed.

During the Sept

More from United States

More from North America