'That's Huge, Folks': Amarin's Vascepa Cuts CV Risk By 25% On Top Of Statins

Cardiovascular outcomes data exceeded expectations for the fish oil pill, vindicating Amarin, which has fought long and hard for Vascepa's place in the CV disease prevention market. A filing based on REDUCE-IT is expected in early 2019.

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Superlatives were not in short supply when Amarin Corp. PLC reported a 25% reduction in cardiovascular risk in the REDUCE-IT outcomes trial for its triglyceride-lowering purified fish oil pill Vascepa (icosapent ethyl), exceeding the fairly low expectations for the long-term study.

"That's huge, folks," Amarin President and CEO John Thero said during an investor call on Sept. 24 when describing the...

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