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Why wasn’t the APPROVe trial stopped earlier?

April 26, 2017approve stopped trial

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Why wasn’t the APPROVe trial stopped earlier?

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The APPROVe trial began enrollment in 2000. The trial was being monitored by an independent data safety monitoring board. It was not stopped earlier because the results for the first 18 months of the trial did not show any increased risk of confirmed cardiovascular events on Vioxx.