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AZ Hopes Coupling GLP-1 Bydureon and SGLT-2 Forxiga Is Paradigm Shift

 
• By Sten Stovall

AstraZeneca hopes positive results from its DURATION-8 trial combining its GLP-1 drug Bydureon and SGLT2 product Forxiga for the first time will spur use – and sales – for each, and open the way for an additional line of defense for type 2 diabetes patients before they are moved onto insulin.

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Results of AstraZeneca PLC’s late-stage study dubbed DURATION-8 is the first trial to evaluate the combination of the two diabetes treatments Bydureon (GLP-1) and Forxiga (SGLT-2) and confirmed what many experts had presumed - that they work better together than separately at reducing blood sugar in patients whose diabetes couldn’t be controlled with first-line therapy metformin, potentially opening a new treatment approach.

The study, released at this year’s annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Munich, Germany and simultaneously published in The Lancet Diabetes...

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