Prophylactic use of alendronate in elderly patients requiring oral prednisolone for whatever condition dramatically reduces the risk of hip fracture, at least in the short term, a new retrospective ...

Heckbert SR, Li G, Cummings SR, Smith NL, Psaty BM. Use of alendronate and risk of incident atrial fibrillation in women. Arch Intern Med 2008;168:826-831. Data from the Group Health Atrial ...

Compared with alendronate, teriparatide was associated with significantly greater pain reduction and better quality of life among postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. Teriparatide has a favorable ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with overweight or obesity, but not type 2 diabetes, lost 14.9% of their body weight after 46 weeks of ...

Osteoporosis is a well-known complication of cardiac transplantation. We conducted a randomized trial comparing alendronate with calcitriol for the prevention of bone loss during the first year after ...

In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, prior fracture, and type 2 diabetes, 12 months of romosozumab significantly improved bone strength when combined with alendronate, compared with alendronate ...

Alendronate is frequently used to treat postmenopausal osteoporosis; however, the effects of long-term treatment on BMD, bone turnover, and fracture risk remain poorly characterized. The Fracture ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults treated with prednisolone and alendronate had reduced risk for hip fracture, major osteoporotic fracture, ...

Alendronate (as sodium) 70mg/75mL; raspberry flavor; contain parabens. Alendronate is a bisphosphonate that binds to bone hydroxyapatite and specifically inhibits the activity of osteoclasts, the bone ...

Statin pills for patient with high cholesterol Decrease in bone mass is common in the first 6 to 12 months after kidney transplantation. Long-term use of alendronate, a bisphosphonate, may slow bone ...

Bisphosphonate therapy is the current standard of care for the prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. Studies of anabolic therapy in patients who are receiving long-term ...

Bone remodeling is thought to be central to the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA). In a study published in Bone, Siebelt and colleagues show that pre-emptive treatment with the biphosphonate ...