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ArticleOsteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA2013

Cost-effectiveness of strontium ranelate in the treatment of male osteoporosis.

M Hiligsmann, W Ben Sedrine, O Bruyère, J-Y Reginster

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Article in Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. A comparative study of Sr-incorporated mesoporous bioactive glass scaffolds for regeneration of osteopenic bone defects.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2014
    Article
  4. Osteoporosis in men.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2013
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

M HiligsmannDepartment of Health Services Research, School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. m.hiligsmann@maastrichtuniversity.nl
W Ben Sedrine
O Bruyère
J-Y Reginster
University of Liège · BEDepartment of Health · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

unlabelledThe results of this study suggest that, under the assumption of same relative risk reduction of fractures in men as for women, strontium ranelate could be considered a cost-effective strategy compared with no treatment for the treatment of osteoporotic men from a Belgian healthcare payer perspective.

introductionThis study was conducted to estimate the cost-effectiveness of strontium ranelate in the treatment of osteoporotic men.

methodsA previously validated Markov microsimulation model was adapted to estimate the cost (<euro>2,010) per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gained of strontium ranelate compared with no treatment. Similar efficacy data on lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) between men with osteoporosis at high risk of fracture (MALEO Trial) and postmenopausal osteoporotic women (pivotal SOTI, TROPOS trials) supports the assumption, in the base-case analysis, of the same relative risk reduction of fractures in men as for women. Analyses were conducted, from a Belgian healthcare payer perspective, in the population from the MALEO Trial who is a men population with a mean age of 73 years, and BMD T-score ≤-2.5 or prevalent vertebral fracture (PVF).

resultsIn the MALEO population, strontium ranelate compared with no treatment was estimated at <euro>49,798 and <euro>25,584 per QALY gained using efficacy data from the intent-to-treat analysis and the per-protocol analysis including only adherent patients, respectively. In men with a BMD T-score ≤-2.5 or with PVF, the cost per QALY gained of strontium ranelate fall below thresholds of <euro>45,000 and <euro>25,000 per QALY gained based on efficacy data from the entire population of the clinical trial and from the per-protocol analyses, respectively.

conclusionsThe results of this study suggest that, under the assumption of same relative risk reduction of fractures in men as for women, strontium ranelate could be considered cost-effective compared with no treatment for male osteoporosis.

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AgedBelgiumBone DensityBone Density Conservation AgentsCost-Benefit AnalysisDrug CostsFemaleFemur NeckHealth Care CostsHumansIncidenceLumbar VertebraeMaleModels, EconometricOsteoporosisOsteoporotic FracturesBone Density Conservation Agentsstrontium ranelateThiophenes

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PMID23371359
PMCPMC3706715
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