PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Mosley, Mary TI - Cardiovascular Safety of Linagliptin Demonstrated in Pooled Analysis DP - 2013 Dec 01 TA - MD Conference Express PG - 15--22 VI - 13 IP - 17 4099 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/17/15.short 4100 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/17/15.full AB - The cardiovascular (CV) safety of linagliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor, in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus has been supported by a pooled comprehensive analysis of prospectively adjudicated CV events in Phase 3 studies. CV benefit with linagliptin is being tested prospectively in the CAROLINA study [NCT01243424] against glimepiride and in the CARMELINA study [NCT01897532] against placebo. The pooled analysis included 9459 patients from 19 United States or multinational, multicenter, double-blind, parallel-group studies.