- Patient has a history of uncontrolled or severe medical disease which could compromise participation in the study such as uncontrolled diabetes (fasting blood glucose > 200 mg/dl), uncontrolled hypertension (systolic blood pressure [BP] > 160 or diastolic BP > 100 mmHg), severe infection (bacterial infection requiring intravenous [IV] antibiotics or human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]), angina at rest, congestive heart failure New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV, ventricular arrhythmias requiring therapy, myocardial infarction within 6 months, > grade 2 neuropathy