THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Dec. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: LXRX) announced clinical data on adipose tissue distribution in non-diabetic patients treated with sotagliflozin will be presented at the 22^nd Global Cardio Vascular Clinical Trialists Forum (CVCT 2025). The conference is being held December 8-10, 2025, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.

This data is from SOTA-P-CARDIA, a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial that exclusively enrolled patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and was conducted by Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. 

“This data, in addition to data recently presented at HCMS and AHA on sotagliflozin’s impact on cardiac remodeling and effects on MACE, provide additional evidence of sotagliflozin’s differentiated benefits compared to SGLT2 inhibitors,” said Craig Granowitz, M.D., Ph.D., Lexicon’s senior vice president and chief medical officer. 

Presentation details:

• “Effect of sotagliflozin on adipose distribution in non-diabetic patients with HFpEF” - Monday, December 8th, 10:30 a.m. ET, presented by Juan Jose Badimon, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Director of the Atherothrombosis Research Unit at the Cardiovascular Institute, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. 
  
  

About Sotagliflozin 
Discovered using Lexicon’s unique approach to gene science, sotagliflozin is an oral inhibitor of two proteins responsible for glucose regulation known as sodium-glucose cotransporter types 2 and 1 (SGLT2 and SGLT1). SGLT2 is responsible for glucose and sodium reabsorption by the kidney and SGLT1 is responsible for glucose and sodium absorption in the gastrointestinal tract. Sotagliflozin has been studied in multiple patient populations encompassing heart failure, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease in clinical studies involving approximately 20,000 patients. Sotagliflozin is also currently under investigation for another cardiac condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). 

About Lexicon Pharmaceuticals    
Lexicon is a biopharmaceutical company with a mission of pioneering medicines that transform patients’ lives. Through the Genome5000™ program, Lexicon’s unique genomics target discovery platform, Lexicon scientists studied the role and function of nearly 5,000 genes and identified more than 100 protein targets with significant therapeutic potential in a range of diseases. Through the precise targeting of these proteins, Lexicon is pioneering the discovery and development of innovative medicines to treat disease safely and effectively. Lexicon has a pipeline of promising drug candidates in discovery and clinical and preclinical development in neuropathic pain, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), metabolism and other indications. For additional information, please visit www.lexpharma.com.

Safe Harbor Statement    
This press release contains “forward-looking statements,” including statements relating to Lexicon’s financial position and long-term outlook on its business, including the commercialization of its approved products and the clinical development of, regulatory filings for, and potential therapeutic and commercial potential of sotagliflozin and its other drug candidates. In addition, this press release also contains forward looking statements relating to Lexicon’s growth and future operating results, discovery, development and commercialization of products, strategic alliances and intellectual property, as well as other matters that are not historical facts or information. All forward-looking statements are based on management’s current assumptions and expectations and involve risks, uncertainties and other important factors, specifically including Lexicon’s ability to meet its capital requirements, successfully commercialize its approved products, successfully conduct preclinical and clinical development and obtain necessary regulatory approvals of its other drug candidates on its anticipated timelines, achieve its operational objectives, obtain patent protection for its discoveries and establish strategic alliances, as well as additional factors relating to manufacturing, intellectual property rights, and the therapeutic or commercial value of its approved products and other drug candidates. Any of these risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause Lexicon’s actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Information identifying such important factors is contained under “Risk Factors” in Lexicon’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Lexicon undertakes no obligation to update or revise any such forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.    

For Investor and Media Inquiries:  
Lisa DeFrancesco    
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.   
lexinvest@lexpharma.com