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Medication following Evenity- Reclast vs Prolia?

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: 2 days ago | Replies (60)
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@awfultruth

@gretch19 and @naturegirl5
It gets repeated over and over in online osteoporosis groups that "Evenity works best for the spine" and sometimes it's added and "not well for the hips". That is such a misleading statement. How do these things proliferate so thoroughly throughout our otherwise very useful groups?

Very simply Evenity is the best we've got for the spine and for the hips. Yes, you generally see much greater improvement in the spine than in the hips but still it's the best we've got for the hips. All the available meds work better for the spine than the hips. It's just more difficult to increase bone density in the hips.

I think Prolia might come the closest to Evenity in increasing bone density in the hip area. I'll add 3 graphs showing a comparison between the two meds over a year's treatment. Evenity wins in every way in this study and in every other study I've ever seen.
From this study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91248-6

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gravity3 | @gravity3 | 6 days ago

Thanks

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Helen, Volunteer Mentor | @naturegirl5 | 6 days ago

@awfultruth Thank you for citing a perr-reviewed scientific article and sharing the graphs. Like you I keep seeing the repetition that Evenity works best for the spine. I wanted the science on this and as you've shown here it's not at all true. My Mayo endocrinologist who is also on the faculty and publishes in this area told me he was most concerned that add bone density in the hip. That was my result. I gained more in the hip than in the lower spine.

I will direct our members to your post and the Nature article when this comes up. And it will again.

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