But he said that the less-sick outpatient heart failure sufferers in this trial should not be used to draw conclusions about the safety of Natrecor for heart failure inpatients in hospital wards.
That difference isn't statistically significant, but many will argue that there just aren't enough patients who have had heart attacks and strokes to draw a conclusion.
Hours later, she got some good news: Gustavo had burns on 20 percent of his body and had suffered two heart attacks as his lungs failed to draw oxygen, but he was alive and being flown to the state capital, Porto Alegre, for treatment.