Messy, back of the envelope calculation: Assume that there were 200 patients in the active group at 24 weeks and 150 patients at 52, and 250 patients were on placebo at 24 weeks and 200 at 52, and you get something like 9 cases of valvulopathy on lorcaserin and 6 on placebo.

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Hard decisions have to be made about which group benefits and which has to suffer, and the groups on the wrong side of the calculation are obviously not going to be pleased about it.

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