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- noun medicine A particular anti-
diabetic drug
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Also known as saxagliptin, the drug is tended to be taken once a day in tablet form and used with diet and exercise to control high blood sugar levels, the FDA said in a release Friday.
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New Diabetes Drug Gets FDA Panel's Backing diabetes drug called saxagliptin has won the endorsement of a U.S.
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For one of the recently-developed oral hyperglycemic drugs saxagliptin we are running a very large study, 16,500 people at 800 centers, with a leading cardiology group in Boston.
Riva Greenberg: Changing Whole Towns to Reduce Type 2 Diabetes: Itamar Raz Riva Greenberg 2012
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Applications for saxagliptin, as well as Novo Nordisk A/S's liraglutide, were submitted before the new guidelines were issued.
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Bristol-Myers and AstraZeneca began conducting human testing of their drug, saxagliptin, well before the new FDA guidelines and didn't design studies to meet the new standards.
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Another possibility for Bristol-Myers could be a deal with Britain's AstraZeneca because the companies are co-developing a drug for diabetes called saxagliptin.
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The next product that could be approved, potentially by the end of the month, is saxagliptin, a diabetes drug being developed with AstraZeneca PLC that has prospects of becoming a major seller.
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Specifically, the panel voted 10 to 2 on a question that asked if there was enough evidence to show saxagliptin didn't carry excess cardiovascular risk.
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The FDA review of saxagliptin focused primarily on six core studies submitted by Bristol-Myers and AstraZeneca that followed patients for at least one year after the initial three-to-six month study period.
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In higher-risk patients, the rates appeared to be similar between patients taking saxagliptin and those getting a placebo or, in one study, the popular diabetes drug metformin, at about 2%.
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