J&J boasts im­proved car­dio safe­ty with SGLT2 fran­chise drug In­vokana

J&J scored vi­tal­ly im­por­tant car­dio safe­ty da­ta for its SGLT2 di­a­betes drug In­vokana in a large Phase III out­comes study, which it hap­pi­ly shared with re­searchers at the an­nu­al Amer­i­can Di­a­betes As­so­ci­a­tion con­fer­ence in San Diego on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

The phar­ma gi­ant $JNJ spelled out a slate of pos­i­tive risk re­duc­tions on three key mea­sures, with a 14% re­duc­tion in risk for a com­pos­ite score on CV mor­tal­i­ty as well as non­fa­tal my­ocar­dial in­farc­tion and stroke, with each mea­sure con­tribut­ing to the pos­i­tive score.

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