Bisphosphonates for treatment of osteoporosis: Expected benefits, potential harms, and drug holidays

OBJECTIVE: To outline the efficacy and risks of bisphosphonate therapy for the management of osteoporosis and describe which patients might be eligible for bisphosphonate “drug holiday.” QUALITY OF EVIDENCE: MEDLINE (PubMed, through December 31, 2012) was used to identify relevant publications for i...

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Main Authors: Brown, Jacques P., Morin, Suzanne, Leslie, William, Papaioannou, Alexandra, Cheung, Angela M., Davison, Kenneth S., Goltzman, David, Hanley, David Arthur, Hodsman, Anthony, Josse, Robert, Jovaisas, Algis, Juby, Angela, Kaiser, Stephanie, Karaplis, Andrew, Kendler, David, Khan, Aliya, Ngui, Daniel, Olszynski, Wojciech, Ste-Marie, Louis-Georges, Adachi, Jonathan
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: College of Family Physicians of Canada 2014
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Practice
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4046542/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24733321
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