In the randomized, placebo-controlled FREEDOM study of women aged 60 to 90 years with postmenopausal osteoporosis, treatment with denosumab once every 6 months for 36 months significantly reduced hip and new vertebral fracture risk by 40% and 68%, respectively. To gain further insight into this efficacy, we performed a nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) of hip and spine quantitative computed tomography (QCT) scans to estimate hip and spine strength in a subset of FREEDOM subjects (nā=ā48...
Authors
Tony M Keaveny, Harry K Genant, Jose R Zanchetta, David Kendler, Jacques P Brown, Chris Recknor, David L Kopperdahl, Klaus Engelke, Thomas Fuerst, Hoi-Shen Radcliffe, Cesar Libanati