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By Reiji Anasako The pharma industry has seen floundering sales of sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors in Japan ever since their launch a few years ago. Now with recent statistics based on a national insurance claim database, dubbed NDB, it was…
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