Novartis Reports Results of Galvus (vildagliptin) Combination Therapy in P-IV VERIFY Study for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
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- The P-IV VERIFY study involves assessing of Galvus (50mg, bid) + Metformin (1000–2000 mg, qd) vs SOC monothx. approach with metformin initiated in treatment naïve patients (n=2001) in a ratio (1:1), recently diagnosed with T2DM across 34 countries for 5yrs.
- The P-IV VERIFY study resulted in meeting its 1EPs i.e, 49% reduction in the risk for time to initial treatment failure as defined as HbA1c >=7%, showed a lower frequency of secondary failure with consistent safety & tolerability profile
- Vildagliptin/Metformin dual regimen is the combination of two anti-diabetic agents with complementary mechanism and is the single pill dual therapy of DPP-4 inhibitor with metformin to be approved in Japan & Europe
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