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Amarin Will Double Vascepa Sales Team In Big Bet On Supplemental Approval

 
• By Joseph Haas

Anticipating a label expansion this fall based on the REDUCE-IT cardiovascular outcomes study, Amarin will double its sales force and has raised revenue guidance. Approved to reduce very high triglyceride levels, Vascepa sales total $170m-$174m so far this year.

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Amarin Corp. PLC previewed its second quarter sales performance on 2 July, pointing to a sizeable increase for Vascepa ahead of an anticipated US approval that would increase the purified fish oil pill's market exponentially, and revealed plans to double its sales force for the product.

Ireland-headquartered Amarin said sales of Vascepa (icosapent ethyl), approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2012 to reduce very high triglyceride levels, totaled $97m-$101m during the second quarter and $170m-$174m in the first half of 2019

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