TAK-875, a new treatment for type 2 diabetes, improves blood sugar control and is equally effective as glimepiride, but has a significantly lower risk of creating a dangerous drop in blood sugar, called hypoglycemia.

Linagliptin (trade name: Trajenta®) has been approved since August 2011 to improve blood glucose control ("glycaemic control") in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus whose elevated blood glucose levels are inadequately controlled by diet and exercise.

DEERFIELD, Ill. and OSAKA, Japan, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) announced today that results from late breaking data presented by Takeda Global Research & Development Center, Inc.

SAN DIEGO, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announce results presented at a late-breaking poster session demonstrating linagliptin was as effective at lowering blood sugar as glimepiride, and with weight loss instead of weight gain (-1.5 kg with linagliptin versus +1.3 kg with glimepiride), a lower incidence of investigator-defined hypoglycemia (7.5 percent versus 36.1 percent; p<0.0001) and fewer cardiovascular (CV) events in adult patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

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