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Novo’s Victoza CV Benefit Claim Could Be Narrowed With FDA Panel Vote

 
• By Sue Sutter

US advisory committee strongly endorses cardiovascular risk reduction claim for the GLP-1 agonist but some panelists say new indication should be limited to diabetics with established CV disease, not the broad primary prevention claim Novo Nordisk is seeking.

Novo Nordisk AS’s Victoza (liraglutide) appears on track to add cardiovascular benefit labeling following a US FDA advisory committee’s endorsement June 20 but the supplemental indication could end up narrower than the sponsor would like.

The Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 17-2 that the results from the LEADER CV outcomes trial provided substantial evidence to establish that the GLP-1

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