Novo Nordisk diabetes drug fails to help heart failure -study
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Orlando :The Novo Nordisk diabetes drug Victoza failed to improve clinical stability or delay death in patients suffering from advanced heart failure, researchers reported at a medical meeting on Sunday.
The injectable drug, known chemically as liraglutide, was tested in 300 patients with and without type 2 diabetes who had advanced heart failure and a recent hospitalization. Researchers had hoped that the medicine's effect on blood sugar could mitigate some of the metabolic effects of heart failure.
However, they found no significant difference between a placebo and Victoza in time to death or time to heart failure hospitalizations, according to data presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) scientific meeting in Orlando.
There was a higher number of hospitalizations in the liraglutide group, but that was not deemed to be statistically significant.
"We're disappointed this didn't work out, but it's important to understand heart failure and diabetes together as common problems," Dr. Adrian Hernandez, professor of medicine at Duke Clinical Research Institute and one of the study's lead researchers, said in an interview.
The injectable drug, known chemically as liraglutide, was tested in 300 patients with and without type 2 diabetes who had advanced heart failure and a recent hospitalization. Researchers had hoped that the medicine's effect on blood sugar could mitigate some of the metabolic effects of heart failure.
However, they found no significant difference between a placebo and Victoza in time to death or time to heart failure hospitalizations, according to data presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) scientific meeting in Orlando.
There was a higher number of hospitalizations in the liraglutide group, but that was not deemed to be statistically significant.
"We're disappointed this didn't work out, but it's important to understand heart failure and diabetes together as common problems," Dr. Adrian Hernandez, professor of medicine at Duke Clinical Research Institute and one of the study's lead researchers, said in an interview.
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