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. 2006 Jul 21;63(1):24–35. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2006.02726.x

Table 4.

Drug-related treatment-emergent adverse events (Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities; MedDRA) reported on one or more occasions by two or more subjects (in any group) receiving tadalafil

Number of subjects
Gender effect study* Age effect study Diabetes effect study Renal Impairment study
Adverse event Male (N = 12) Female (N = 12) Elderly (N = 12) Young (N = 12) Healthy (N = 12) Diabetes (N = 12) Healthy (N = 12) Impaired (N = 20)
Headache 3 4 2 4 3 3 1 2
Back pain 6 5 3 4 1 6 0 3
Myalgia 5 3 4 3 1 1 2 4
Musculoskeletal pain 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
Asthenia 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0
Somnolence 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Pain in extremity 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Number of subjects
Hepatic impairment study Renal dialysis study
Adverse event Healthy (N = 8) Hepatically impaired (N = 25) Tadalafil 5 mg (N = 6) Tadalafil 10 mg (N = 12) Tadalafil 20 mg (N = 6)
Headache 4 4 2 2 0
Back pain 0 1 0 0 0
Myalgia 2 3 0 0 0
Musculoskeletal pain 0 0 0 0 0
Asthenia 0 0 0 0 0
Somnolence 0 0 0 3 0
Pain in extremity 0 0 0 0 0
*

Single-dose pharmacokinetic data only. Multiple-dose pharmacokinetic data are discussed in text.

Data for treatment-emergent adverse events.