In patients with adjacent vertebral compression fractures after vertebroplasty, teriparatide alone was reported to give a lower incidence of new vertebral fractures than repeated vertebroplasty with an antiresorptive (odds ratio 0.21, 95% CI 0.02-2.10).
In plain wordsNew vertebral fractures were reported less often with teriparatide than with repeated vertebroplasty plus an antiresorptive, though the confidence interval was wide (0.02-2.10).
- Peptide
- Teriparatide (PTH 1-34)
- Outcome
- DecreaseNew vertebral compression fractures
- Study
n = 44
- Comparator
- Additional vertebroplasty with an antiresorptive agent
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Measurements
- Odds ratio
- 0.21 ratio
- teriparatide versus group B
- Fracture reduction
- 78.57%
- teriparatide
Source sentences
Patients treated with teriparatide had a significantly lower incidence of new-onset VCFs (odds ratio = 0.21; 95% confidence interval, 0.02-2.10). Teriparatide-mediated VCF reduction was 78.57%, which was markedly better than that of group B.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Fifty patients with adjacent VCFs were randomly assigned to two groups: teriparatide only (group A) and additional vertebroplasty combined with an antiresorptive agent (group B).