Servier's Protelos builds stronger bone compared to bisphosphonates, study shows

22 June 2010

French independent drugmaker Laboratoires Servier's osteoporosis treatment Protelos (strontium ranelate) has greater effects than the commonly prescribed bisphosphonate alendronate on bone micro-architecture (cortical thickness, trabecular and cortical density) in postmenopausal women according to a two-year study presented at the European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR) in Rome, Italy, over the weekend.

Results of this head-to-head study of 88 women show that, according to bone scans (HR-pQCT technology), cortical thickness (p

<0.05), trabecular bone fraction (p>

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