In elderly osteoporotic women with pelvic fractures, PTH 1‑84 shortened mean healing time to 7.8 weeks versus 12.6 weeks with control.
In plain wordsIn elderly women with osteoporosis, PTH shortened pelvic fracture healing to 7.8 weeks versus 12.6 weeks with control.
- Outcome
- DecreaseTime to fracture healing
- Study
n = 65
- Comparator
- Control
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- 100 µg once daily · injectionAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Mean time to fracture healing
- 7.8 weeks
- PTH 1-84 group
- Mean time to fracture healing
- 12.6 weeks
- control group
Source sentences
The mean time to fracture healing was 7.8 weeks for the treatment group, compared with 12.6 weeks for the control group (p < 0.001).
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
The purpose of the present prospective, randomized, controlled study was to evaluate the effect of PTH 1-84 on the course of pelvic fracture-healing and functional outcome in postmenopausal women.
Twenty-one patients received a once-daily injection of 100 µg of PTH 1-84 starting within two days after admission to the hospital, and forty-four patients served as the control group. All patients received 1000 mg of calcium and 800 IU of vitamin D.