In osteoporosis, once-weekly teriparatide achieved lumbar BMD treatment success by LSC in 79.2% of subjects.
In plain wordsIn osteoporosis, 79.2% met the lumbar bone density success criterion during teriparatide treatment.
- Peptide
- Teriparatide (PTH 1-34)
- Outcome
- Not applicableLumbar BMD treatment success by LSC
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- once-weekly · 72 weeksAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Proportion with treatment success
- 79.2%
- once-weekly teriparatide, 72 weeks; Lumbar BMD by LSC
Source sentences
Once-weekly teriparatide therapy for 72 weeks showed treatment success in 79.2 % of the subjects for lumbar BMD and 44.1 % for femoral neck BMD by LSC and in 50.5 and 39.6 % by absolute change, respectively.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
The data of subjects whose lumbar or femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) was measured in the TOWER study were included.
The least significant change (LSC) and the absolute change were used as the criteria for judgment of treatment success.