Empire Building: Jardiance To Take ‘Special Place’ In Heart Failure

Boehringer And Lilly 'Urgently' Submitting EMPEROR-Preserved Data

Boehringer Ingelheim’s cardiometabolism head Mohamed Eid considers the impact of EMPEROR-Preserved study on the heart failure treatment landscape and looks ahead at potential new conquests in kidney disease for its SGLT2 inhibitor.

Boehringer Ingelheim headquarters in Ingelheim, Germany
Jardiance turning into a megablockbuster for Boehringer Ingelheim • Source: Archive (dieth+schröder-fotografie)

Backed by the impressive data from the EMPEROR-Preserved trial, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH and Eli Lilly and Company are busy preparing supplementary filings for Jardiance which if successful – as seems highly likely – will become the only therapy to improve outcomes in all heart failure patients, regardless of ejection fraction or diabetes status.

Jardiance (empagliflozin) took center stage at the recent virtual European Society of Cardiology meeting, with results from the 5,988-patient study showing that the SGLT-2 inhibitor plus standard of care demonstrated a 21% reduction for the composite primary endpoint of cardiovascular death or hospitalization

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