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

NEW ORLEANS, November 9 /PRNewswire/ —
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The results of a two-year Phase III study in 3040 patients with rimonabant (Acomplia(TM)), the first in a new class of therapeutic agents called selective CB1 Blockers, demonstrate that the benefits achieved with rimonabant 20mg at the end of the first year of the study were sustained in the second year of therapy with a good safety and tolerability profile vs. placebo. The two year results of …

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