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crg_id CRG030600047
titleoftrial Raloxifene treatment on bone mineral density in postmenopausal dialysis patients in Japan
acronymnoftrial Raloxifene trial in Japanese dialysis patients
website http://
identificationno
leadprefix Dr
leadsurname Fukagawa
leadgivennames Masafumi
leadposition Associate Professor and Director
leaddepartment Division of Nephrology & Dialysis Center
leadorganisation Kobe University School of Medicine
leadaddress 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0017 Japan
leademail fukagawa@med.kobe-u.ac.jp
leadphone +81 78 382 6500
leadfax +81 78 382 6509
leadsuffix
contactprefix Dr
contactsurname Tanaka
contactgivennames Motoko
contactposition Vice Director
contactdepartment Division of Nephrology
contactorganisation Akebono Clinic
contactaddress 5-1-1 Shirafuji, Kumamoto, 861-4112, Japan
contactemail tanaka@matusita-kai.or.jp
contactphone +81 96 358 7211
contactfax +81 96 358 7226
funding ngo
otherfunding
fundingnameofsponsors Renal bone disease fund, Japan
ethicsapproval yes
studytype randomised
studytype_other
groupassignment parallel
blinding_patients yes
blinding_investigators no
blinding_outcomes yes
blinding_analysts yes
proposedstart 1/2005
actualstart 3/2005
proposedcompletiondate 3/2007
actualcompletiondate
multi_center_study yes
numberofcentres 3
multi_national_study no
countrycentres Japan
researchquestion To examine whether raloxifine treatment prevents the progressive loss of bone mineral density in postmenopausal Japanese female patients on maintenance dialysis
study_status_recruitment no_longer_recruiting
study_status_recruitment_follow ongoing
healthcarecondition chronic renal failure
intervention1 raloxifene
intervention2
intervention3
intervention4
participants_gender female
participants_other adults
age 40 to 70 years old
totalrecruitment 30
inclusion Postmenopausal patients with less than 10 years of dialysis vintage and low bone mineral density of lumber spine (less than -1SD)
exclusion PTH> 300 pg/ml
Ca > 10.5 mg/dl
primaryoutcomes changes in bone mineral density
secondaryoutcomes bone fracture
reference