Clinical Trials Express:Fracture Risk Reduction With Denosumab in Japanese Postmenopausal Women and Men With Osteoporosis: Denosumab Fracture Intervention Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial (DIRECT)
Author(s) -
Toshitaka Nakamura,
Toshio Matsumoto,
Toshitsugu Sugimoto,
Takayuki Hosoi,
Takami Miki,
Itsuo Gorai,
Hideki Yoshikawa,
Yoshiya Tanaka,
Sakae Tanaka,
Teruki Sone,
Tetsuo Nakano,
Masako Ito,
Shigeyuki Matsui,
Toshiyuki Yoneda,
Hideo Takami,
Ko Watanabe,
Taisuke Osakabe,
Masataka Shiraki,
Masao Fukunaga
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2013-4175
Subject(s) - denosumab , medicine , placebo , osteoporosis , hazard ratio , clinical endpoint , randomized controlled trial , adverse effect , incidence (geometry) , confidence interval , surgery , pathology , alternative medicine , physics , optics
Denosumab 60 mg sc injection every 6 months for 36 months was well tolerated and effective in reducing the incidence of vertebral, nonvertebral, and hip fracture in predominantly Caucasian postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.
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