LISBON, Portugal--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced results of a 102 week Phase III study for linagliptin (trade name Trajenta® in Europe), which show meaningful and durable reductions in blood glucose for adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D). In the two-year study presented today at the 47th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), the DPP-4 inhibitor linagliptin showed a favourable safety profile and lowered HbA1c levels by 0.8% over the long term1 in those patients treated with linagliptin for the full study period.
