New analysis on Novartis' Entresto's life-saving potential could boost sales

23 June 2016

New analysis is the first to highlight the extent of potential survival benefits if Swiss pharma giant Novartis’ (NOVN: DE) Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan) was prescribed to all eligible US heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

This analysis should prove a boost for Novartis following sluggish initial sales of the drug, now the standard therapy for heart failure with HFrEF in the USA.

The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology, suggest that timely and broad adoption of the treatment could prevent or postpone more than 28,000 deaths each year in the USA alone.

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