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Advantages in Efficacy and Safety Will Make Liraglutide the New Clinical

Gold Standard Drug by 2011, According to a New Report from Decision

Resources

WALTHAM, Mass., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that a weight neutral oral antidiabetic drug would earn a 25 percent patient share in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, according to surveyed primary care physicians. Given the prices set for each of the drug profiles and the size of the type 2 diabetic patient population in 2011, a 25 percent patient share would result in sales of $4.1 billion for an agent fitting the report's Minimal Acceptable drug profile and $8.1 billion for an agent fitting the report's Major Achievement profile.

The new report entitled Type 2 Diabetes: Blockbuster-Bound Januvia Addresses Physicians' Concern over Hypoglycemia also finds that Novo Nordisk's liraglutide will become the new Decision Resources' proprietary clinical gold standard for the treatment of type 2 diabetes by 2011 as surveyed primary care physicians indicate that liraglutide has competitive advantages in terms of efficacy and safety in comparison to the current gold standard, metformin. Although liraglutide has disadvantages in the area of delivery because of its subcutaneous injectable formulation, its positive efficacy and safety attributes offset its disadvantage in delivery.

"Interviewed primary care physicians also state that liraglutide offers a considerable advantage over other current and emerging type 2 diabetes therapies in terms of weight loss," said Donny Wong, Ph.D., principal analyst at Decision Resources. "As a result, we forecast liraglutide to become the clinical gold standard among the agents covered in our analysis."

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