Empagliflozin benefits adults hospitalised for acute heart failure
Phase III trial shows that adults hospitalised for acute heart failure were 36 percent more likely to experience a clinical benefit if initiated on empagliflozin.
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Phase III trial shows that adults hospitalised for acute heart failure were 36 percent more likely to experience a clinical benefit if initiated on empagliflozin.
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted a positive opinion recommending Jardiance® (empagliflozin) for the treatment of adults with symptomatic chronic heart failure, Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company announced today.1
- The positive opinion is based on the landmark EMPEROR-Preserved Phase III trial, which showed significant outcomes in patients with heart failure with left ventricular ejection fraction over 40%1 If
In a new sub-analysis of the landmark EMPEROR-Preserved Phase III trial, empagliflozin reduced the combined relative risk of cardiovascular death and hospitalization for heart failure and slowed kidney
This new indication is based on the EMPEROR-Reduced trial, which showed a significant 25 per cent reduction in the combined relative risk versus placebo of...