Hospitals typically have two types of patients: inpatients and outpatients.
The company did not identify the types of patients for whom it might adjust dosages.
All types of patients are served at the center, from the well off to the impoverished.
These are exactly the types of patients palliative care aims to help, say experts.
"They can pick the most profitable types of patients," Dr. Kahn said.
To anticipate F.D.A. questions, Regeneron is conducting other studies to see how Axokine reduces obesity in various types of patients.
There are many different types of hospitals that all specialize in different types of patients.
They also didn't take into account the types of patients some emergency physicians see.
The following month the Care Quality Commission, the NHS care regulator, issued a mortality alert covering those three types of patients.
They said the results could not be extrapolated to other types of patients, like those getting chemotherapy or those with kidney disease.
Both types of patients must monitor their blood sugar and control their diet to keep blood sugar in a target range.
