Infections in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis treated with denosumab or placebo: Coincidence or causal association?

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 327-337

  Watts, N B ^a   Roux, C ^b   Modlin, J F ^c   Brown, J P ^d   Daniels, A ^e   Jackson, S ^e   Smith, S ^e   Zack, D J ^e   Zhou, L ^e   Grauer, A ^e   Ferrari, S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e AMGEN INC   (United States)

^f GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Denosumab; Infections; Postmenopausal osteoporosis; RANKL

Indexed keywords

DENOSUMAB; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVERTICULITIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOCARDITIS; ERYSIPELAS; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GASTROENTERITIS; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LABYRINTHITIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OTITIS MEDIA; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; OTITIS; PLACEBOS; RANK LIGAND; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84857364148     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-011-1755-2     Document Type: Article

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