Drugs from Isis' Lipid Franchise Highlighted at European Society of Cardiology Congress 2014

KYNAMRO®, ISIS-APOCIIIRX AND ISIS-APO(A)RX DATA PRESENTED CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISIS) announced today that data from three drugs in its lipid franchise were highlighted in four presentations at the 2014 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona Spain. Isis has created a lipid franchise of antisense drugs designed to provide effective and safe therapeutic options to treat patients with lipid disorders. This franchise is composed of one commercialized drug and several other drugs in clinical development designed to treat cardiovascular conditions by reducing specific lipid parameters that are risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Data presented include: A retrospective analysis of data from a long-term extension study of KYNAMRO® (mipomersen sodium) injection. In this analysis patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) and homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) treated for one year with KYNAMRO experienced a reduction in Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE) from 25.72/1000 months (in the two years prior to KYNAMRO® treatments) to 4.85/1000 months. An overall summary of the Phase 2 program for ISIS-APOCIIIRx in which treatment with ISIS-APOCIIIRx produced consistent, robust and statistically significant reductions in triglycerides, apoC-III and non-HDL and increases in HDL-cholesterol in all patient populations evaluated. Data from the Phase 1 study of ISIS-APO(a)Rx in which treatment with ISIS-APO(a)Rx produced dose-dependent and significant reductions in Lp(a) levels in healthy volunteers.

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