Table 3.

P-Score of Different Rankings of Each Treatment Strategy

SHORT-TERM		LONG-TERM
Serum Uric Acid		Serum Uric Acid
Benzbromarone	0.7908	Allopurinol	0.8108
Febuxostat	0.7146	Febuxostat	0.6728
Allopurinol	0.4937	Placebo	0.0164
Placebo	0.0009	Renal Function
Renal Function		Allopurinol	1.0000^*
Allopurinol	0.8937	Febuxostat	0.3912
Febuxostat	0.4598	Placebo	0.1088
Placebo	0.1465	Systolic Blood Pressure
Systolic Blood Pressure		Allopurinol	0.9035^*
Febuxostat	0.8581	Febuxostat	0.4626
Allopurinol	0.3246	Placebo	0.1340
Placebo	0.3173	Diastolic Blood Pressure
Diastolic Blood Pressure		Febuxostat	0.9000
Placebo	0.6534	Placebo	0.3307
Febuxostat	0.5900	Allopurinol	0.2693
Allopurinol	0.2567

↵* Large value of P-score (eg, >0.90) may reflect that treatment is quite certain to be the most efficacious or safest.