Hypertension vaccine CYT006-AngQb achieves strong blood
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SCHLIEREN, Switzerland and MILAN, Italy | June 17, 2007 | Cytos Biotechnology AG (SWX:CYTN) presented today new clinical data on its hypertension vaccine CYT006-AngQb at the Seventeenth European Meeting on Hypertension in Milan, Italy. The vaccine candidate was tested in a placebocontrolled, double-blind phase IIa clinical trial in 72 patients with mild to moderate hypertension. On January 26, 2007, Cytos Biotechnology reported top-line data from this study, which showed that the 300 μg dose of the vaccine was safe, very well tolerated and efficacious in lowering day-time ambulatory blood pressure. The new data presented today show a particularly strong efficacy of the vaccine in early morning hours, a critical time period when serious cardiovascular events frequently occur. The early morning rise of blood pressure starting at 5 am was significantly suppressed by the vaccine, leading at 8 am to a change from baseline of the blood pressure of - 25 / - 13 mm Hg compared to placebo (SBP / DBP, p<0.0001 / p=0.0035).
SOURCE: Cytos Biotechnology AG