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Treatment failure in osteoporosis

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Summary

Guidelines concerning the definition of failure of therapies used to reduce the risk of fracture are provided.

Introduction

This study aims to provide guidelines concerning the definition of failure of therapies used to reduce the risk of fracture.

Methods

A working group of the Committee of Scientific Advisors of the International Osteoporosis Foundation was convened to define outcome variables that may assist clinicians in decision making.

Results

In the face of limited evidence, failure of treatment may be inferred when two or more incident fractures have occurred during treatment, when serial measurements of bone remodelling markers are not suppressed by anti-resorptive therapy and where bone mineral density continues to decrease.

Conclusion

The provision of pragmatic criteria to define failure to respond to treatment provides an unmet clinical need and may stimulate research into an important issue.

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Acknowledgments

This working group has been funded by the International Osteoporosis Foundation.

Conflicts of interest

A. Diez-Perez has given lectures and provided advice for Novartis, Amgen, Lilly and MSD. His institution has received research grants from Amgen and Servier.

J.D. Adachi has given lectures and is a consultant for Amgen, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Novartis, Procter & Gamble, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Warner Chilcott. D. Agnusdei is an employee of Eli Lilly.

J. Bilezikian is a consultant for Amgen, Merck, Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline, gives lectures for Amgen, Lilly and has received research grant from Amgen.

J. Compston has no disclosure.

S. Cummings is a consultant for Merck, Amgen and Lilly.

R. Eastell serves as a consultant, has received honoraria for speaking, and has received grant support from Amgen, AstraZeneca, California Pacific Medical Center, GlaxoSmithKline, Hologic, Kyphon Inc., Lilly Industries, Maxygen, Nastech Pharmaceuticals, Nestle Research Center, New Zealand Milk Limited, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, ONO-Pharma, Organon Laboratories, Osteologix, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Roche Diagnostics, Sanofi-Aventis, Servier, Shire, Tethys, Trans-Pharma Medical Limited, Unilever and Unipath.

E. Eriksen has given lectures and has provided advice for Novartis, Amgen, Eli Lilly and ISD.

J. González-Macías has given lectures and provided advice for Amgen, Lilly, Servier and MSD.

U. Liberman has given lectures for MSD.

D Wahl declares no conflict of interest.

E. Seeman serves as advisory board member and gives lectures at symposia organised by several pharmaceutical companies including, variously Amgen, Warner Chilcott, MSD, Eli Lilly, Sanofi-Aventis, and Novartis.

J.A. Kanis receives research funding and consults with many companies involved with skeletal metabolism.

C. Cooper has received honoraria and consulting fees from Servier, Amgen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Medtronic and Novartis.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar-IMIM, Autonomous University of Barcelona, RETICEF, Instituto Carlos III, P. Maritim 25-29, 08003, Barcelona, Spain

    A. Diez-Perez

  2. Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    J. D. Adachi

  3. Eli Lilly and Co., Florence, Italy

    D. Agnusdei

  4. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    J. P. Bilezikian

  5. Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

    J. E. Compston

  6. San Fransisco Coordinating Center, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Fransisco, CA, USA

    S. R. Cummings

  7. Academic Unit of Bone Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    R. Eastell

  8. Department of Endocrinology, Oslo University Hospital, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    E. F. Eriksen

  9. Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla–IFIMAV, University of Cantabria, RETICEF, Santander, Spain

    J. Gonzalez-Macias

  10. Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    U. A. Liberman

  11. International Osteoporosis Foundation, Nyon, Switzerland

    D. A. Wahl

  12. Endocrine Centre, Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    E. Seeman

  13. WHO Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    J. A. Kanis

  14. MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    C. Cooper

  15. NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    C. Cooper

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Diez-Perez, A., Adachi, J.D., Agnusdei, D. et al. Treatment failure in osteoporosis. Osteoporos Int 23, 2769–2774 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-012-2093-8

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