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Record W2900935517 · doi:10.1038/s41394-018-0137-9

A randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial assessing the effect of tadalafil (Cialis) on the cardiovascular response in men with complete spinal cord injury above the sixth thoracic level: A Pilot Study

2018· article· en· W2900935517 on OpenAlex
Karen Ethans, Alan Casey, Mohamed Tarhoni, Mayur Nankar, Stella Entcheva

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Bibliographic record

VenueSpinal Cord Series and Cases · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSpinal Cord Injury Research
Canadian institutionsSt. John’s Health Sciences CentreUniversity of ManitobaHealth Sciences CentreManitoba Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineTadalafilPlaceboRandomized controlled trialSpinal cord injuryAnesthesiaDouble blindSpinal cordInternal medicineErectile dysfunctionPathologyAlternative medicine

Abstract

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STUDY DESIGN: Double-blind, randomized cross-over placebo-controlled pilot study. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of tadalafil on systolic blood pressure (SBP), heart rate (HR), and dizziness of men with American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale-A (AIS-A) spinal cord injury (SCI) between cervical-4 (C4) and thoracic-5 (T5) levels. SETTING: Outpatient rehabilitation clinic. DESIGN: Double-blind, randomized cross-over placebo-controlled pilot study. METHODS: 20 males with AIS-A SCI, C4-T5 received either tadalafil 20 mg or placebo for the first arm, and then were crossed-over after 1 week to the second arm. SBP, HR, and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for dizziness upon sitting up from lying were measured at baseline and again 1, 2, 4, 12, 22, 29, and 36 h post dose administration. The change in each outcome measure (SBP, HR, VAS dizziness) was observed from pre-dose to each time point. A change in VAS dizziness of 2 cm or greater (scale 0-10 cm) was considered positive. RESULTS: <0.05), with no change in the placebo group. The VAS dizziness significantly increased (range 2-6 cm changes) at some time point in 1/4 of the subjects after tadalafil, but not in the placebo group; all reports of dizziness were at 12 h or later. CONCLUSIONS: Tadalafil use in people with SCI above T6 is safe with respect to not causing hypotension; hemodynamic changes that occurred 12-36 h post administration were compensated for by elevations in HR. SPONSORSHIP: The Manitoba Medical Services Foundation and the Health Sciences Centre Foundation.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.014
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.484
Threshold uncertainty score0.919

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0140.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.145
GPT teacher head0.452
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it