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. 2010 Oct 12;22(6):1935–1946. doi: 10.1007/s00198-010-1379-y

Table 3.

Mean bone marker valuesa (95% confidence intervals) at baseline, 1 month and 6 months in the treatment naïve, AR pretreated and inadequate AR responder subgroups

Treatment naive AR pretreated Inadequate AR responder p-valueb
AR pretreated vs. naive Inadequate AR responder vs. naive AR pretreated vs. inadequate AR responder
PINP (μg/L)
Baseline 48.2 (43.8 – 53.1) 26.1(23.8 – 28.5) 27.5 (25.7 – 29.4) <0.0001 <0.0001 0.363
1 month 85.5 (78.0 – 93.6) 56.6 (52.0 – 61.6) 62.2 (58.4 – 66.3) <0.0001 <0.0001 0.079
6 months 129.1 (116.1 – 143.5) 118.2 (106.9 – 130.6) 136.6 (126.8 – 147.2) 0.235 0.387 0.022
b-ALP (μg/L)
Baseline 12.9 (12.1 – 13.7) 10.1 (9.6 – 10.7) 10.2 (9.8 – 10.7) <0.0001 <0.0001 0.775
1 month 14.3 (13.5 – 15.2) 12.0 (11.4 – 12.7) 12.4 (11.9 – 12.9) <0.0001 <0.0001 0.374
6 months 18.9 (17.6 – 20.3) 17.6 (16.5 – 18.8) 19.2 (18.3 – 20.2) 0.152 0.749 0.045
t-ALP (μg/L)
Baseline 69.6 (66.5 – 72.9) 64.1 (61.4 – 66.9) 63.3 (61.3 – 65.4) 0.010 0.001 0.655
1 month 72.5 (69.4 – 75.7) 67.9 (65.2 – 70.8) 68.0 (65.9 – 70.1) 0.034 0.019 0.976
6 months 82.9 (79.0 – 87.0) 82.1 (78.5 – 85.9) 84.1 (81.3 – 87.0) 0.777 0.630 0.407

aAdjusted by baseline P1NP concentration and BMD values, and duration of prior AR treatment

bMMRM of log-transformed data

AR = antiresorptive; PINP = procollagen Type 1 N-terminal propeptide; b-ALP = bone-specific alkaline phosphatase; t-ALP = total alkaline phosphatase