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Prolia Side Effects May Increase Risk of Low Trauma Fractures

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In a recent addition of Public Citizen’s Worst Pills, Best Pills Newsletter, the consumer watchdog group warns that the Amgen bone drug Prolia may increase the risk of sudden bone fractures.  The fractures may occur with little, or even no trauma.

According to the newsletter, there have been concerns over the potential side effects of Prolia since 2009, a year before the FDA made the drug the first approved drug for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis.

At this time, the U.S. FDA has not issued a warning, but a warning about the risk of femur fractures from Prolia have been issued in Canada.

According to Public Citizen, Prolia (denosumab) interferes with bone metabolism and the body’s immune system, resulting toinatypical bone fractures and breaks that happen spontaneously without the usual trauma, like a fall, needed to break a bone.

According to Amgen, Prolia fractures have been confirmed among patients who are part of an ongoing study to extend the use of of the drug for postmenopausal osteoporosis. The fractures appear to occur in one out of every 10,000 patients that use the drug. In most cases the fractures produce a dull, unusual aching pain in the thigh, hip, or pelvis area.

Public Citizen placed the osteoporosis drug on it’s “Do Not Use” list and urges consumers and health care providers to avoid Prolia.

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