Conditions: Osteoporosis
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 135
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to assess to what extent sequential treatment with odanacatib results in incremental gains in bone mineral density (BMD) over time in female participants who have received at least 3 years of bisphosphonate therapy. It was hypothesized that odanacatib treatment would increase femoral neck BMD relative to placebo after 24 months.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Participants will receive odanacatib 50 mg once weekly for 24 months. Additionally, all participants will receive weekly supplementation with 5600 international units (IU) of Vitamin D3 and, if required, will be provided with an open-label daily calcium supplement of 500 mg (sourced locally as calcium carbonate or calcium citrate) to ensure a total daily intake (from both dietary and supplemental sources) of approximately 1200 mg of elemental calcium. arm 2: Participants will receive dose-matched placebo to odanacatib once weekly for 24 months. Additionally, all participants will receive weekly supplementation with 5600 IU Vitamin D3 and, if required, will be provided with an open-label daily calcium supplement of 500 mg (sourced locally as calcium carbonate or calcium citrate) to ensure a total daily intake (from both dietary and supplemental sources) of approximately 1200 mg of elemental calcium.

Interventions: intervention 1: odanacatib intervention 2: placebo to odanacatib
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: odanacatib 50 mg oral tablet intervention 2: dose-matched placebo to odanacatib, oral tablet

Protocol document: