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Novo Nordisk—manufacturer of popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy—will acquire the drug ocedurenone for $1.3 billion, an experimental drug the Danish firm says could be used to treat uncontrolled hypertension, with potential applications for treating cardiovascular and kidney disease.
Ocedurenone is an orally administered drug that works against aldosterone, a hormone that raises your body’s blood pressure. The drug is still in late-stage testing for treating uncontrolled hypertension—a condition in which blood pressure is high despite multiple treatments—and was previously investigated in nine other clinical trials, including one whichNovo Nordisk said it will launch other late-stage trials for the drug to test ocedurenone’s effectiveness for cardiovascular and kidney disease “in the coming years” in an effort to “maximize the full potential” of the drug.
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