After Jardiance Heart Failure Successes, BI And Lilly Focus On Kidney
Phase III Stopped Early
Executive Summary
Jardiance, the best-selling SGLT2 inhibitor, has AstraZeneca’s same-class rival Farxiga firmly in its sights in renal disease after showing such a level of efficacy that the 6,600-patient EMPA-KIDNEY study has been halted.
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