French drug major Sanofi-Aventis' Uroxatral (alfuzosin) failed to significantly reduce symptoms in recently-diagnosed men with chronic prostatitis who had not been previously treated with this drug, according to a clinical trial sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health.
The primary outcome of the study, which is due to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine, was a decrease in the NIH Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index of at least four points over 12 weeks of treatment. A four-point decrease in the NIH-CPSI score has been shown to be the minimal clinically-significant difference.
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