In Chinese women with osteoporosis, teriparatide increased lumbar spine BMD more than calcitonin, with a 5.0% least-squares mean difference.
In plain wordsIn Chinese women with osteoporosis, teriparatide increased spine bone density more than calcitonin.
- Peptide
- Teriparatide (PTH 1-34)
- Outcome
- IncreaseLumbar spine BMD in Chinese study
- Study
n = 228
- Comparator
- Calcitonin
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · 24 weeksAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Least-squares mean difference in LS-BMD change
- 5%
- teriparatide versus calcitonin, Chinese study
Source sentences
For changes in LS-BMD from baseline to week 24, treatment with teriparatide showed significantly greater increases (P-values <0.001; least-squares mean difference: 5.0% in the Chinese study and 5.4% in FPT) than comparator (calcitonin/placebo).
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
To bridge the efficacy and compare the safety of the 24-week teriparatide treatment in a Chinese osteoporosis study (NCT00414973) to a large international trial (FPT, NCT00670501) to determine whether long-term results from the international study were applicable to Chinese patients.
In this post-hoc analysis, a propensity score matching method was used to select patients with similar baseline characteristics.
Patients were female with osteoporosis at high risk of fracture, aged ≥55 years, and had no history of rheumatoid arthritis or corticosteroid use.