Compliance of osteoporotic patients with different treatment regimens.

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Summary

At least 20% of the patients discontinued chronic treatment for osteoporosis during the initial 6 months of therapy, and the main reasons were gastrointestinal side effects in the alendronate group and fear of side effects and high drug price in the raloxifene group.

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Published
2003-12-01
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Medicine, Raloxifene, Osteoporosis, Bisphosphonate, Internal medicine

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