Status:

COMPLETED

2-Year Therapy With Teriparatide vs 1-yr Therapy Followed by 1-Year of Raloxifene or Calcium/Vit D in Severe Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

Lead Sponsor:

Eli Lilly and Company

Conditions:

Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal

Eligibility:

FEMALE

55+ years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

The primary purpose of the study is to compare 3 different osteoporosis therapies following one year of teriparatide.In the first year,all eligible patients received open-label teriparatide 20 microgr...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Ambulatory women greater or equal to 55 years, at least 2 years postmenopausal.
  • Lumbar spine or total hip or femoral neck bone mineral density measurement must be at least 2.5 standard deviations (SD) below the average bone mass for young women (T-score -2.5 or less).
  • Presence of at least one known and documented preexisting clinical fragility fracture, in the past 3 years.
  • Patients may be included in substudy 2 if they meet any one of the following additional criteria - Patients who have sustained at least one new fragility fracture (vertebral or nonvertebral), despite prescription of antiresorptive therapy\* during the 12 months prior to the last new fracture or patients who, after a minimum of two years after initiating antiresorptive therapy\*, either have a lumbar spine, femoral neck, or total hip BMD of at least - 3SD below the average bone mass for young women (T-score -3 or less), or who show a decrease of at least 3.5% in BMD at any one of these sites.
  • \*Antiresorptive therapy includes all bisphosphonates, raloxifene, ERT/HRT, calcitonin, and vitamin D metabolites.

Exclusion

  • For substudy 1 patients only:
  • current or history of vaginal bleeding or spotting of unknown cause in the 1 year prior to study start
  • currently suspected or history of venous thrombotic events (VTE), including lower extremity thrombosis, and other major venous thromboses, or high risk of developing VTE as assessment by the investigator.
  • Treatment with
  • Vitamin D \>50,000 IU/week or with any dose of calcitriol or vitamin D analogs or agonists in the 6 months prior to visit 2
  • Fluorides in the 12 months prior to visit 2.
  • Systemic corticosteroids (other than for replacement therapy) in the 1 month prior to visit 2.(Ophthalmic, otic topical, orally inhaled, nasally inhaled, or intra-articular corticosteroid therapy may be used without these restrictions.)

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2002

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

End Date :

November 1 2005

Estimated Enrollment :

810 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00191425

Start Date

August 1 2002

End Date

November 1 2005

Last Update

July 16 2007

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Bad Pyrmont, Germany, D-31812