Effects of TZD Use and Discontinuation on Fracture Rates in ACCORD Bone Study

Ann V Schwartz1, Haiying Chen1, Walter T Ambrosius1

  • 1University of California (A.V.S., E.V., D.C.B.), San Francisco, California 94143; Wake Forest School of Medicine (H.C., W.T.A., J.D.W.), Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157; Louis Stokes VA Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University (A.S.), Cleveland, Ohio 44106; St. Michael's Hospital (R.G.J.), Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada; National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (D.E.B.), National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892; Case Western Reserve University (A.M.S.), Cleveland, Ohio 44106; SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Kings County Hospital (M.A.B.), Brooklyn, New York 11203; University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (R.M.C.), Cincinnati, Ohio 45267; VA Medical Center and University of Maryland School of Medicine (B.P.H.), Baltimore, Maryland 21201; University of Miami (T.I.), Miami, Florida 33124; Division of Endocrinology (D.E.S.), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205; University of Utah and Salt Lake City Veterans Hospital (D.L.S.), Salt Lake City, Utah 84148; University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (A.S.-R.), Iowa City, Iowa 52242; and Health Partners Institute for Education and Research (K.M.), Minneapolis, Minnesota 55425.

Summary

Thiazolidinedione (TZD) use increases fracture risk in women with type 2 diabetes. Discontinuing TZDs in women reduces this fracture risk, while men show no association.

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