Osteoporosis (Conference News)

Drug May Reduce Hip Fracture Risk By Over Half in Women Without Spine Fracture

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 21st, 1998

An osteoporosis drug can reduce the risk of hip fractures by 56 percent among women who have never suffered a spinal fracture, according to new results from the landmark Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT).

"These results are dramatic," said Dennis Black, PhD, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) professor of medicine and epidemiology, lead author of the study, who presented his findings on at the European Congress on Osteoporosis held September 11-15, 1998, in Berlin, Germany. "No other therapy has been shown to work in such a wide spectrum of women with osteoporosis to reduce the most devastating of fractures -- those that occur at the hip."

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