Inventors:
Jay Norman Cohn - Minneapolis MN, US
Robert Dean Glazer - Piscataway NJ, US
Robert Latini - Milan, IT
Aldo Pietro Maggioni - Florence, IT
Gianni Tognoni - Milan, IT
International Classification:
A61K 31/41, A61P 9/00
Abstract:
The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and a method of preventing or reducing the incidence of AF and thereby reducing the risk of morbidity and mortality in patients having symptomatic heart failure comprising administering to such patient an effective amount of valsartan, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, alone or in combination with another therapeutic agent, optionally in the presence of a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.