CRESTOR OUTCOMES STUDY JUPITER CLOSES EARLY DUE TO UNEQUIVOCAL EVIDENCE OF BENEFIT
AstraZeneca today announced it has decided to stop the CRESTOR JUPITER clinical study early based on a recommendation from an Independent Data Monitoring Board and the JUPITER Steering Committee, which met on March 29, 2008. The study will be stopped early because there is unequivocal evidence of a reduction in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality amongst patients who received CRESTOR when compa