*Only proven in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis when taken with calcium and vitamin D daily.
Where Could You Suffer Your Next Broken Bone?
Even if you've had surgery to repair a broken bone, you may need to do more to help reduce your risk of another fracture due to osteoporosis.*
A spine fracture or a broken bone caused by a minor fall or lifting something the wrong way could be a sign of osteoporosis, a bone disease that can cause your bones to become fragile. You may not realize your osteoporosis is getting worse because you can't feel your bones getting weaker.
If your osteoporosis gets worse, your bones could become weaker and you could experience a fracture that wouldn't occur in normal bone. So now is the time to help reduce your risk of future fractures due to osteoporosis.*
*Only proven in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis when taken with calcium and vitamin D daily.
Osteoporosis Can Put You at Risk of Painful Fractures That May Require Surgery
With osteoporosis, one broken bone means you may be at risk of future fractures.
Nearly 20% of women who sustain a new spine fracture due to osteoporosis will experience a subsequent spine fracture within 12 months.
Women with a broken hip due to osteoporosis are at a 4-fold greater risk of a second hip fracture
due to osteoporosis.
In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, a clinical study has shown that
FORTEO helps reduce the risk of new fractures due to osteoporosis.†
- FORTEO reduced the risk of new spine fractures by approximately 2/3 (65% relative risk reduction;
9.3% absolute risk reduction).
- FORTEO reduced the risk of new fractures in other bones by half (53% relative risk reduction; 2.9% absolute risk reduction). These other bones included the ankle/foot, hip, upper arm, pelvis, ribs, wrist, and others.
†In a clinical study of FORTEO involving 1,637 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis (of whom 90% had a spine fracture), 541 women took a daily 20mcg dose of FORTEO and 544 took a placebo for a median time of 19 months and a maximum of 24 months. All women took calcium and vitamin D daily.
FORTEO Helps Build New Bone
FORTEO is the only FDA-approved osteoporosis medicine that helps build new bone.
FORTEO has been on the market for over 10 years to treat osteoporosis in people like you.
See how FORTEO helps reinforce bone in 2 ways.
FORTEO Reinforces Bone in Two Ways
Please see Important Safety Information, including Boxed Warning regarding osteosarcoma, at the end of this video and the links below.
FORTEO is used by postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who are at high risk for having broken bones (fractures). FORTEO can be used by postmenopausal women who have had a fracture related to osteoporosis, or who have several risk factors for fracture, or who cannot use other osteoporosis treatments.
What is the most important information I should know about FORTEO?
WARNING: POTENTIAL RISK OF OSTEOSARCOMA
Possible bone cancer. During drug testing, the medicine in FORTEO caused some rats to develop a bone cancer called osteosarcoma. In people, osteosarcoma is a serious but rare cancer. Osteosarcoma has rarely been reported in people who took FORTEO. It is not known if people who take FORTEO have a higher chance of getting osteosarcoma. Before you take FORTEO, you should tell your healthcare provider if you have Paget's disease of bone, are a child or young adult whose bones are still growing, or have had radiation therapy.
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