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Date:6/8/2009

ted group was the result of more aggressive medication intervention, while concurrent anti-diabetic medications were reduced in patients treated with Qnexa to meet the same glycemic thresholds. The results of the DM-230 study had previously been released but the ADA podium presentation represents the first time the trial results have been shared with the scientific and medical community.

Qnexa was well-tolerated, with no drug-related serious adverse events. The most common drug-related adverse events reported over the 56 weeks for the treatment and placebo groups, respectively, were tingling, nausea, dry mouth, dizziness, insomnia and constipation. Patients were monitored for depression and suicidality using the PHQ-9 questionnaire, the FDA's preferred mental health assessment tool. Patients treated with Qnexa demonstrated greater improvements in PHQ-9 scores from baseline to the end of the study than the placebo group, providing further assurance that Qnexa treatment does not produce significant adverse mood changes or suicidality.

Despite a mean baseline HbA1c level of 8.7 percent, 53 percent of the subjects treated with Qnexa were able to achieve the ADA recommended goal of 7.0 percent or lower, versus 40 percent of the subjects in the placebo arm (p<0.05). The incidence of treatment-related hypoglycemia was similar in the treatment and placebo arms (2.7% and 1.8%, respectively). There were no cases of severe hypoglycemia.

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