A Multicenter, Randomized Placebo Controlled Pilot MicroCT Study to Estimate the Effect of Treatment With Denosumab (AMG 162) and Alendronate Sodium in Postmenopausal Women With Low Bone Mineral Density

Summary

This study is structured to estimate the effect of denosumab, compared to placebo and alendronate, on several bone parameters.

Timeline

Start

2006-05

Primary completion

2008-03

Completion

2008-08

Publications

• Background Seeman E, Delmas PD, Hanley DA, Sellmeyer D, Cheung AM, Shane E, Kearns A, Thomas T, Boyd SK, Boutroy S, Bogado C, Majumdar S, Fan M, Libanati C, Zanchetta J. Microarchitectural deterioration of cortical and trabecular bone: differing effects of denosumab and alendronate. J Bone Miner Res. 2010 Aug;25(8):1886-94. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.81.
• Background Zebaze RM, Libanati C, Austin M, Ghasem-Zadeh A, Hanley DA, Zanchetta JR, Thomas T, Boutroy S, Bogado CE, Bilezikian JP, Seeman E. Differing effects of denosumab and alendronate on cortical and trabecular bone. Bone. 2014 Feb;59:173-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2013.11.016. Epub 2013 Nov 22.
• Hu YJ, Chines A, Shi Y, Seeman E, Guo XE. The effect of denosumab and alendronate on trabecular plate and rod microstructure at the distal tibia and radius: A post-hoc HR-pQCT study. Bone. 2022 Jan;154:116187. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2021.116187. Epub 2021 Sep 14.

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