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Amarin Reports Encouraging Efficacy and Safety Results from Pilot Study Treating COVID-19 ...
Amarin Corporation plcDecember 13, 2020 GMT
VASCEPA COVID-19 CardioLink-9 Randomized Trial suggests improvement in patient-reported COVID-19 symptoms while achieving its primary endpoint by demonstrating a 25% reduction in high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) with encouraging short-term safety and tolerability data using VASCEPA loading dose
VASCEPA administration resulted in a significant 52% reduction of the total patient-reported symptom outcome prevalence score as compared to a 24% reduction in the usual care group
Larger follow-on clinical studies have commenced of VASCEPA as a therapeutic option in COVID-19 settings, anticipated to be completed in 2021