Amarin scores a big win for its car­dio out­comes study on Vas­cepa — stock races high­er as an­a­lysts ap­plaud

Amarin $AM­RN has staked its claim to the next big block­buster in the car­dio space, herald­ing a clear sta­tis­ti­cal win on the pri­ma­ry end­point for its 7-year clin­i­cal quest to prove that its in­dus­tri­al strength pu­ri­fied fish oil Vas­cepa can sig­nif­i­cant­ly re­duce ma­jor car­dio threats for a broad swath of pa­tients.

An ear­ly pre­view of the top-line da­ta rolled out at a bleary-eyed time in the morn­ing on Mon­day point­ed a di­rect ar­row at a rel­a­tive 25% drop in risk for ma­jor car­dio events — such as death, stroke and hos­pi­tal­iza­tion due to angi­na — hit­ting a high­ly sta­tis­ti­cal p=<0.001 for the pa­tients in the years-long RE­DUCE-IT study. And re­searchers al­so high-fived each oth­er for a clean safe­ty pro­file in the same head­line da­ta to make the state­ment.

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