Teriparatide or alendronate in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 2028-2039

  Saag, Kenneth G ^a   Shane, Elizabeth ^b   Boonen, Steven ^c   Marín, Fernando ^d   Donley, David W ^d   Taylor, Kathleen A ^d   Dalsky, Gail P ^d   Marcus, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IBANDRONIC ACID; PARATHYROID HORMONE[1-34]; PREDNISONE; RISEDRONIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GASTRITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEADACHE; HIP; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; INSOMNIA; LIMB PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; RISK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

EID: 36148958951     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa071408     Document Type: Article

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