For 10 years, the American laboratory Eli Lilly, has been working on an experimental treatment (solanezumab) designed to delay the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The results of a first test, in 2012, were inconclusive.
But one second clinical trial carried out in 2014 with 2000 patients recruited at an early stage of the disease seemed more positive and had prompted the company to continue its clinical trials with patients suffering from a moderately advanced form of the disease.
No significant impact on cognitive decline
This 3rd clinical trial, the results of which have just been presented by the laboratory, indicate that solanezumab does not “does not meet the primary endpoint of the clinical trial. After 18 months of treatment, patients treated with solanezumab did not experience a statistically significant slowing of cognitive decline compared to patients treated with placebo”.
The Eli Lilly laboratory will therefore not seek FDA approval for this drug. “The result was not what we had hoped for and we understand the disappointment of millions of people awaiting potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.”said Dr Eric Siemers, Medical Director at Lilly.
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