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. 2019 Oct 22;2019(10):CD005015. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005015.pub4

Sirsat 2010.

Methods
  • Study design: parallel RCT

  • Study duration: not reported

  • Duration of follow‐up: 1 year

Participants
  • Country: India

  • Setting: not reported

  • Inclusion criteria: adult kidney transplant recipients

  • Number: 41

  • Mean age ± SD (years): not reported

  • Sex (M/F): not reported

  • Exclusion criteria: not reported

Interventions Treatment group
  • Pamidronate: 60 mg (IV) at baseline and 6 months post transplant


Control group
  • Alendronate: 70 mg/week for 1 year


Co‐interventions
  • Not reported

Outcomes
  • BMD

Notes
  • Abstract‐only publication

  • Data cannot be meta‐analysed

Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Open‐label study
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Selective reporting (reporting bias) High risk Data cannot be meta‐analysed, numbers per group not reported, no SD
Other bias Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement