Amarin Corp Plc (AMRN)

[Whalatane]

What is the purpose of a Data Monitoring Committee.? Seriously ?

First and foremost it's to check for adverse events and how serious these are.
Trials get stopped largely because of serious adverse events showing up.

If there's a serious difference between rates of severe diarrhea between the placebo arm and the active arm ...do we really want to continue the trial even if the drug in the active arm may be showing some efficacy in treating the disease. ...?

There's no harm ( other than what's already been identified --- slightly more AFib and slight increase in bleeding risk ) using Vascepa ...and if the placebo is truly inert ( forgot what they were using in this trial ) ...keep running the trial .
It may take until the last yr of the trial to see benefit ( if any ) anyway

Kiwi