In older women with osteoporosis, sequential teriparatide then alendronate reduced vertebral fracture incidence versus alendronate alone.
In plain wordsIn older women with osteoporosis, sequential teriparatide then alendronate reduced vertebral fractures versus alendronate alone.
- Peptide
- Teriparatide (PTH 1-34)
- Outcome
- DecreaseMorphometric vertebral fracture incidence
- Study
n = 985
- Comparator
- Alendronate monotherapy
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
Measurements
- Morphometric vertebral fracture events
- 64 per 627.5 person-years
- Sequential therapy group
- Annual incidence rate
- 0.102 per person-year
- Sequential therapy group
- Morphometric vertebral fracture events
- 126 per 844.2 person-years
- Alendronate monotherapy group
- Annual incidence rate
- 0.1492 per person-year
- Alendronate monotherapy group
- Rate ratio
- 0.69 ratio
- Sequential therapy versus alendronate
- Rate ratio 95% CI
- 0.54 to 0.88 ratio
- Sequential therapy versus alendronate
Source sentences
The incidence of morphometric vertebral fracture during the 120-week follow-up period in the sequential therapy group (64 per 627.5 person-years, annual incidence rate 0.1020) was significantly lower than that in the monotherapy group (126 per 844.2 person-years, annual incidence rate 0.1492),
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
with a rate ratio of 0.69 (95% confidence interval 0.54 to 0.88, P < 0.01).
Japanese women aged at least 75 years were eligible for the study, if they had primary osteoporosis and if they were at high risk of fracture.
Of these, 489 and 496, respectively, were included in the main analysis.
In this study, Teriparatide (PTH 1-34) was a lab tool or a carrier, part of a mix, or the subject of a lab method. This result is not evidence about taking Teriparatide (PTH 1-34).