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CompletedNCT00778154

Study of Bone Histomorphometry, Microarchitecture, and Matrix Structure in Patients Receiving Alendronate or Risedronate

A Study of Bone Histomorphometry, Microarchitecture, and Matrix Structure in Patients Receiving Long-Term Alendronate or Risedronate

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
105 (actual)
Sponsor
Warner Chilcott · Industry
Sex
Female
Age
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Patients who have received the appropriate number of years of alendronate or risedronate therapy will be recruited. Each patient will have received baseline BMD measurements performed at the spine and the hip by DXA. Each patient will receive tetracycline to label the bone and then have a transiliac bone biopsy. One year later teh bone label and biopsy procedure will be repeated.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2004-01-01
Primary completion
2006-12-01
Completion
2006-12-01
First posted
2008-10-23
Last updated
2013-06-05

Locations

8 sites across 2 countries: United States, Canada

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00778154. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.