Important news for Solvay Pharmaceuticals' fenofibrate franchise
The Solvay group welcomes on this World Day of Diabetes the promising results of the Fenofibrate Intervention and Event Lowering in Diabetes (FIELD) study, unveiled today at the annual congress of the American Heart Association in Dallas (United States). The study involved nearly 10,000 patients recruited from 63 sites and studied over an average of five years; it was the largest intervention study ever conducted for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes.