In osteoporotic postmenopausal women in the PINP subset, teriparatide reduced fracture risk versus placebo.
In plain wordsIn women with osteoporosis in the PINP subset, teriparatide reduced fracture risk compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Teriparatide (PTH 1-34)
- Outcome
- DecreaseFracture risk in PINP subset
- Study
n = 771
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- 20 or 40 mcg/dayAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Fracture risk
- 5.5%
- teriparatide, PINP subset
- Fracture risk
- 17.7%
- placebo, PINP subset
- P value
- < 0.05 NA
- teriparatide versus placebo, PINP subset
Source sentences
Teriparatide significantly reduced the risk of fracture [four BTM subset (n = 520), placebo = 14.3%, teriparatide = 5.8%, P < 0.05; PINP subset (n = 771), placebo = 17.7%, teriparatide = 5.5%, P < 0.05].
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
We examined data from the Fracture Prevention Trial, a study designed to determine the effect of teriparatide 20 mcg/day and teriparatide 40 mcg/day on vertebral and nonvertebral fracture risk in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.
BTM were analyzed in two subsets of women within the Fracture Prevention Trial, and included serum bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (BSAP), serum carboxy-terminal extension peptide of procollagen type I (PICP), serum amino-terminal extension peptide of procollagen type I (PINP), urinary free deoxy…