Pharma Marketletter - Sanofi-Aventis’ Acomplia provides long-term cardiovascular benefits; two-year study.

New findings reported at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, Louisiana, show that first-year improvements in cardiovascular risk factors seen in obese patients treated with Sanofi-Aventis’ Acomplia (rimonabant) are sustained in the second year of therapy.

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Long-Term Benefits of Rimonabant Confirmed in Two-Year Study.

RIO (Rimonabant In Obesity)-North America was a Phase III, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial which compared two fixed-dose regimens of Acomplia (5mg and 20mg once-daily) to placebo for a period of two years. The study involved …
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