Cholesterol drugs, both new and old, are in the news again. There’s a lot going on now but the picture won’t really become clear until next month, when the results of a decade-old trial will finally be revealed. Briefly, here’s what’s happening:
- Two new trials presented fresh evidence that PCSK9s, the much discussed new class of cholesterol drugs, have powerful LDL-lowering properties.
- A new drug from Esperion, the phoenix of biotech companies, also showed promising results. The drug, ETC-1002, is a few years behind the PCSK9s in development but has some important theoretical advantages that may prove very important down the road.
- At the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in November the results of the IMPROVE-IT trial will be presented. The results of this trial, as I have argued in the past, may have a broad if not decisive impact on the future of the PCSK9s and ETC-1002.
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