A Multicenter, Double-Blind Study to Evaluate the Effect of Pretreatment With a Daily Dose of Sildenafil on the As-Needed Efficacy of Viagra in Men With Erectile Dysfunction and Type 2 Diabetes

• Erectile Dysfunction
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

• Drug: sildenafil
  In the double-blind phase, patients received sildenafil 50 mg once daily during Week 1 (7 doses), followed by a daily dose of sildenafil 100 mg during the next 3 weeks.
• Drug: placebo
  In the double-blind phase, patients received placebo once daily during Week 1 (7 doses), followed by a daily dose of placebo during the next 3 weeks.
• Drug: sildenafil
  Eligible subjects then entered an open-label phase during which all subjects received sildenafil 50 mg as needed for sexual activity for the next 2 weeks, which could be titrated to either 25 mg or 100 mg based on the investigator's assessment of efficacy and tolerability, for 10 weeks (12 weeks total).

• Active Comparator: Arm 1
  Intervention: Drug: sildenafil
• Placebo Comparator: Arm 2
  Intervention: Drug: placebo
• Open-Label Arm
  Intervention: Drug: sildenafil

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients had a documented clinical diagnosis of erectile dysfunction, a sexual partner for the duration of the study, and have a HbAlc of less than or equal to 10 at screening. Type 2 diabetic patients currently on insulin or on combination therapy with an oral hypoglycemic agent were not excluded.

Exclusion Criteria:

Excluded were subjects who had taken more than 6 doses of any PDE5 inhibitor and/or had taken their last dose less than 4 weeks prior to the screening visit; subjects with resting sitting and/or standing hypotension (BP < 90/50mmHg) or hypertension (BP > 170/110mmHg); and subjects with significant cardiovascular disease, including cardiac failure, myocardial infarction, unstable angina, stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), symptomatic or clinically significant cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation in the last 3 months.