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Does Alendronate reduce the risk of fracture in men? A meta-analysis incorporating prior knowledge of anti-fracture efficacy in women

BACKGROUND: Alendronate has been found to reduce the risk of fractures in postmenopausal women as demonstrated in multiple randomized controlled trials enrolling thousands of women. Yet there is a paucity of such randomized controlled trials in osteoporotic men. Our objective was to systematically r...

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Autores principales: Sawka, Anna M, Papaioannou, Alexandra, Adachi, Jonathan D, Gafni, Amiram, Hanley, David A, Thabane, Lehana
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16008835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-6-39