Results and Additional Analyses From Study Show That Corthera's Relaxin for Acute Heart Failure is the Strongest Predictor of Improved Longer-Term Outcomes Following Hospital Discharge When Compared to Other...( Data from Phase II/III Study Presente...),Health

Data from Phase II/III Study Presented at Heart Failure Congress 2009 Demonstrate Promising Safety and Efficacy Results for Relaxin

SAN MATEO¿ Calif.¿ June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Corthera Inc. today announced that the results and additional statistical analyses conducted from Pre-RELAX-AHF, the Phase II portion of a Phase II/III multicenter, randomized, double-blind, international study, showed that relaxin, the company's investigational drug for the treatment of acute heart failure (AHF), was the strongest independent predictor of improved longer-term outcomes following hospital discharge when compared to other variables.

The new analyses of predictors of 60-day and 180-day outcomes, which included univariate and multivariate regression analyses, were presented today by Marco Metra, M.D., professor of cardiology at the University of Brescia, Italy, and co-principal investigator of the Pre-RELAX-AHF study, during a late-breaking clinical trials session at the annual meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (HFA-ESC 2009) in Nice, France.

Several variables, including baseline patient characteristics, early improvement in dyspnea (breathlessness) to day five, physician-determined occurrence of worsening of heart failure (WHF) during hospitalization, increased serum creatinine during hospitalization and relaxin administration, were included in the model to determine the important predictors of the two outcome measures: 60-day cardiovascular (CV) death or re-admission for heart failure and 180-day CV death. In the 60-day multivariate analysis, relaxin treatment was the strongest predictor of less CV death or heart failure re-admission (p<0.01). Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) on admission (p=0.02) and WHF during hospitalization (p=0.02) were also significant predictors. Relaxin treatment was the only significant variable (p<0.01) in both the multivariate and univariate analyses predicting CV death at
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