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- Title
Timing of Bisphosphonate (Alendronate) Initiation after Surgery for Fragility Fracture: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
- Authors
Wu, Meng-Huang; Lin, Yu-Sheng; Wu, Christopher; Lee, Ching-Yu; Chen, Yi-Chia; Huang, Tsung-Jen; Cheng, Jur-Shan
- Abstract
Bisphosphonates are used as first-line treatment for the prevention of fragility fracture (FF); they act by inhibiting osteoclast-mediated bone resorption. The timing of their administration after FF surgery is controversial; thus, we compared the incidence of second FF, surgery for second FF, and adverse events associated with early initiation of bisphosphonates (EIBP, within 3 months of FF surgery) and late initiation of bisphosphonates (LIBP, 3 months after FF surgery) in bisphosphonate-naïve patients. This retrospective population-based cohort study used data from Taiwan's Health and Welfare Data Science Center (2004–2012). A total of 298,377 patients received surgeries for FF between 2006 and 2010; of them, 1209 (937 EIBP and 272 LIBP) received first-time bisphosphonates (oral alendronate, 70 mg, once a week). The incidence of second FF (subdistribution hazard ratio (SHR) = 0.509; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.352–0.735), second FF surgery (SHR = 0.452; 95% CI: 0.268–0.763), and adverse events (SHR = 0.728; 95% CI: 0.594–0.893) was significantly lower in the EIBP group than in the LIBP group. Our findings indicate that bisphosphonates should be initiated within 3 months after surgery for FF.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; COHORT analysis; ALENDRONATE; BONE resorption; SURGERY; SERVER farms (Computer network management)
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021, Vol 10, Issue 12, p2541
- ISSN
2077-0383
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/jcm10122541