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It’s Monday, which means Wall Street is having a say about the results from a long-anticipated clinical trial of the cholesterol-lowering drug Praluent that were presented Saturday by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi.

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Praluent, given by injection, reduced the risk of death for patients with high cholesterol — a landmark finding in the field of cardiology, doctors said, marking the first time since the statin era that a cholesterol-lowering drug has demonstrated a significant effect on whether patients live or die.

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