Participants were given 210 mg romosozumab once monthly and compared with those given 20 mcg teriparatide daily for 12 months.8 STRUCTURE included postmenopausal osteoporotic women (n=436) averaging 72 years, with a history of non-vertebral fracture after age 50 or vertebral fracture and treatment with bisphosphonate therapy for a minimum of three years prior to transitioning to romosozumab or teriparatide therapy. For secondary endpoints, romosozumab-treated patients had significantly greater increases in BMD from baseline and increases in strength compared with teriparatide-treated patients.
Michele B. Kaufman, PharmD, CGP, RPh, is a freelance medical writer based in New York City and a pharmacist at New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital.
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