Efficacy of continued alendronate for fractures in women with and without prevalent vertebral fracture: the FLEX trial.
Schwartz AV, Bauer DC, Cummings SR, Cauley JA, Ensrud KE, Palermo L, Wallace RB, Hochberg MC, Feldstein AC, Lombardi A, Black DM; FLEX Research Group.
Schwartz AV, et al.
J Bone Miner Res. 2010 May;25(5):976-82. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.11.
J Bone Miner Res. 2010.
PMID: 20200926
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In the Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT) Long Term Extension (FLEX) Trial, 10 years of alendronate (ALN) did not significantly reduce the risk of nonvertebral fractures (NVFs) compared with 5 years of ALN. ...In previous studies, ALN efficacy for NVF prevention in women wi …
In the Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT) Long Term Extension (FLEX) Trial, 10 years of alendronate (ALN) did not significantly reduce …