is it normal to get constipation at week 7
is it normal to get constipation at week 7, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair. Assumed the weight numbers were the point and was corrected. They are secondary to what this is being developed for. Independent purity results for this compound are very sparse across the whole…
Histological endpoints in this field are scored on biopsy: resolution of steatohepatitis without worsening of fibrosis, or improvement in fibrosis without worsening of steatohepatitis. Both are harder to achieve and to interpret than an imaging surrogate.
What does the tolerability table say at that dose?
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Not convinced. Imaging-based fat fraction is not the same as a histological response and the paper is explicit about that.
Correction: that is the imaging endpoint, not the histological one. The paper reports both and they differ substantially.
MASH endpoints are histological, which is a much harder bar
research material is not approved for human use, which is why the clinical record here is thin
Went slowly because everything published describes a deliberate escalation. That is the extent of what I will say about it.