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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Three-year Experience with Alendronate Treatment in Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Japanese Women with or without Renal Dysfunction

A Retrospective Study

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Background and Objective: Chronic kidney disease is associated with an increased risk of fragility fractures. A retrospective study was conducted to compare outcomes after 3 years of alendronate treatment in postmenopausal osteoporotic Japanese women with or without renal dysfunction (RD).

Methods: One hundred and thirty-five postmenopausal osteoporotic Japanese women (mean age at baseline: 68 years) who had been treated with alendronate in our outpatient clinic for more than 3 years were analysed. The lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) of patients was measured using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, and urinary levels of cross-linked N-terminal telopeptides of type I collagen (NTX) and serum levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) were monitored during the 3-year treatment period. The incidence of osteoporotic fractures was also assessed.

Results: Twenty-six women had RD with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of <60 mL/min/1.73 m2. The urinary NTX and serum ALP levels significantly decreased and the lumbar spine BMD significantly increased, compared with the baseline values, in a manner that was similar among women with or without RD. However, the incidence of non-vertebral fractures, but not that of vertebral fractures, was significantly higher among women with RD than among women without RD.

Conclusions: Alendronate treatment appeared to have a similar effect on surrogate markers in postmenopausal osteoporotic Japanese women with or without RD. However, further studies are needed to confirm that RD may increase the risk of non-vertebral fractures in patients treated with alendronate.

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  • 16 August 2019

    The Editor has retracted this article [Iwamoto J, Sato Y, Uzawa M, Takeda T, Matsumoto H. Three-year Experience with Alendronate Treatment in Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Japanese Women with or without Renal Dysfunction: A Retrospective Study. Drugs Aging 2012; 29(2): 133-142.]. After publication, serious concerns were raised with respect to the reporting of the study design, methodology, data and authorship, and the Editor no longer has confidence in this article. Hideo Matsumoto and Tsuyoshi Takeda agree with this retraction. Jun Iwamoto and Mitsuyoshi Uzawa have not responded to correspondence about this retraction. Yoshihiro Sato is deceased.

  • 16 August 2019

    The Editor has retracted this article��[Iwamoto J, Sato Y, Uzawa M, Takeda T, Matsumoto H. Three-year Experience with Alendronate Treatment in Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Japanese Women with or without Renal Dysfunction: A Retrospective Study. Drugs Aging 2012; 29(2): 133-142.]. After publication, serious concerns were raised with respect to the reporting of the study design, methodology, data and authorship, and the Editor no longer has confidence in this article. Hideo Matsumoto and Tsuyoshi Takeda agree with this retraction. Jun Iwamoto and Mitsuyoshi Uzawa have not responded to correspondence about this retraction. Yoshihiro Sato is deceased.

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  1. Institute for Integrated Sports Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan

    Jun Iwamoto, Tsuyoshi Takeda & Hideo Matsumoto

  2. Department of Neurology, Mitate Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

    Yoshihiro Sato

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keiyu Orthopaedic Hospital, Gunma, Japan

    Mitsuyoshi Uzawa

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The Editor has retracted this article. After publication, serious concerns were raised with respect to the reporting of the study design, methodology, data and authorship, and the Editor no longer has confidence in this article. Hideo Matsumoto and Tsuyoshi Takeda agree with this retraction. Jun Iwamoto has not responded to correspondence about this retraction. We have been unable to contact Mitsuyoshi Uzawa. Yoshihiro Sato is deceased.

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Iwamoto, J., Sato, Y., Uzawa, M. et al. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Three-year Experience with Alendronate Treatment in Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Japanese Women with or without Renal Dysfunction. Drugs Aging 29, 133–142 (2012). https://doi.org/10.2165/11598440-000000000-00000

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