Anabolic agents for osteoporosis: What is their likely place in therapy?

Treatments in Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 347-358

  Girotra, Monica ^a   Rubin, Mishaela R ^a   Bilezikian, John P ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FLUORIDE SODIUM; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE[1-34]; PLACEBO; RALOXIFENE; RECOMBINANT PARATHYROID HORMONE; RECOMBINANT SOMATOMEDIN C; RISEDRONIC ACID; SCLEROSTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; STRONTIUM RANELATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANABOLIC AGENT; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENT;

BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE TURNOVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERURICEMIA; INCIDENCE; LIMB PAIN; META ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; DRUG EFFECTS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; BONE DENSITY; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; TERIPARATIDE;

EID: 33751229879     PISSN: 11756349     EISSN: 11756349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00024677-200605060-00003     Document Type: Review

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