In osteoporotic postmenopausal women, PTH reduced vertebral fracture risk versus placebo when noncompleters were assumed fracture-free (RR 0.42, 95% CI 0.24–0.72).
In plain wordsIn osteoporotic women, PTH reduced vertebral fracture risk versus placebo when noncompleters were assumed fracture-free.
- Outcome
- DecreaseVertebral fractures assuming no fractures in noncompleters
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- 100 mug daily · subcutaneous · 18 monthsAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Relative risk
- 0.42
- assuming no fractures
- P value
- 0.001
- assuming no fractures
- 95% CI of relative risk
- 0.24 to 0.72
- assuming no fractures
Source sentences
relative risk assuming no fractures, 0.42 [95% CI, 0.24 to 0.72] [P = 0.001]
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
18-month, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study.
2532 postmenopausal women with low bone mineral density at the hip or lumbar spine.
Women received 100 mug of recombinant human PTH or placebo daily by subcutaneous injection.