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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2018

Warning of an increased risk of vertebral fracture after stopping denosumab.

Christopher Symonds, Gregory Kline

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Approach to osteoporosis diagnosis and fracture risk management in primary care.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2026
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  4. Follow-on osteoporosis therapy after denosumab discontinuation among Medicare beneficiaries.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026
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  12. Atypical femur fractures: current understanding and approach to management.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Christopher SymondsDivision of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta. cjsymond@ucalgary.ca.
Gregory KlineDivision of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Bone Density Conservation AgentsDenosumabDrug SubstitutionHumansMedication AdherenceObservational Studies as TopicOsteoporosisRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicRisk FactorsSpinal FracturesTime FactorsBone Density Conservation AgentsDenosumab

Identifiers

PMID29685907
PMCPMC5915244

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