Obesity Therapy

Phase IIa trial data indicate statistically significant weight loss in obese patients taking APD356

Published in Drug Week, November 25th, 2005

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (ARNA) announced that data from its positive phase IIa clinical trial studying APD356 in 352 obese patients were the subject of a presentation by Steven Smith, MD, principal investigator and associate professor of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, at the 2005 annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO).

Over the 28-day treatment period in the trial, there was a highly statistically significant (p=0.0002) mean placebo adjusted weight loss of approximately 1 kilogram in patients taking the 15 mg dose of APD356. APD356 was generally well tolerated at all doses investigated in the trial. APD356 is a...

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Source: Drug Week (2005-11-25)

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