Abstracts tagged "Osteonecrosis of the jaw and osteoporosis"

Abstract Number: 348 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Incidence Rate of Potential Osteonecrosis of the Jaw Among Women with Postmenopausal Osteoporosis Treated with Prolia or Bisphosphonates
Fei Xue¹, Rachel B Wagman¹, Susan Yue¹, Shawna Smith¹, Tarun Arora², Jeffrey R. Curtis², Vera Ehrenstein³, Henrik T Sørensen³, Grethe Tell⁴, Helle Kieler⁵, Florence T Wang⁶, David D Dore⁶ and J Michael Sprafka¹, ¹Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁴University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, ⁵Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁶Optum, Waltham, MA
Background/Purpose: Although a higher risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) has been associated with antiresportive treatment based on spontaneous reports and observational studies, no…