In women with osteoporosis, teriparatide reduced vertebral fracture risk versus placebo in both vitamin D status subgroups.
In plain wordsTeriparatide reduced vertebral fracture risk versus placebo in women with insufficient or sufficient vitamin D.
- Peptide
- Teriparatide (PTH 1-34)
- Outcome
- DecreaseVertebral fracture risk
- Study
n = 1,620
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- 20 or 40 microg daily · subcutaneous · Median 19 monthsAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
TPTD reduced vertebral and nonvertebral fracture risk, increased lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density, and increased amino-terminal extension peptide of procollagen type 1 relative to placebo in the two 25OHD subgroups.
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Data were from 1620 osteoporotic postmenopausal women in the Fracture Prevention Trial.
The response to TPTD was assessed in women subgrouped by having 25OHD insufficiency (>10 but 30 but <or=183 ng/ml) at the baseline (randomization) visit.
At baseline, after at least 1 month of supplementation with calcium (1000 mg) and vitamin D (400-1200 IU) daily, women were randomized to placebo or 20 or 40 microg TPTD by daily sc injection for a median of 19 months.