Clinical characteristics of the two groups of patients
Group | No of patients | Sex F/M | Age range | Disease duration (weeks, mean (SD)) | Possible aetiological fasctors (no) | ||||||
Trauma | Fracture | Neurological | Unknown | ||||||||
Alendronate blind + alendronate open | 10 | 7/3 | 39-79 | 16 (17) | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | |||
Placebo blind + alendronate open | 10 | 5/5 | 48-80 | 19 (19) | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 |