[Bone quality in treatment with raroxifene ]

In recent years, treatments for osteoporosis have been developing rapidly, and many of these research results have been reported. Although the concept of EBM (evidence based medicine) is beginning to become widespread in Japan, the reliability of data can only be composed of reproducibility of trial results and quantitative consistency. Currently, one of trial results considered of possessing the highest reproducibility is the trial result from meta-analysis, which is a synthesis of all trials. Data used on the this meta-analysis is composed of up to 190 researches selected from approximately 2,000 categories of reports, and is the bottom line of osteoporosis treatment data over 25 years. It is believed that this will come forward as indispensable information when suggesting treatments to patients during the course of daily practice.