After an impressive phase 3 showing last fall, AstraZeneca’s wager on CinCor Pharma and its aldosterone synthase inhibitor (ASI) baxdrostat has continued to pay off. | After an impressive phase 3 showing last fall, AstraZeneca’s wager on CinCor Pharma and its aldosterone synthase inhibitor (ASI) baxdrostat has continued to pay off, with an FDA approval Monday that also advances the British pharma’s goal to strike $80 billion in revenue by the end of the decade.

Baxfendy inhibits a blood-pressure-raising enzyme and, according to AstraZeneca executives, is poised to be a “big product” that should ultimately generate $5 billion or more in…

AstraZeneca announced the FDA approved baxdrostat for uncontrolled hypertension as add-on therapy on top of standard care.Baxdrostat (Baxfendy) is the first aldosterone synthase…