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Fig. 1 | Trials

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From: Teriparatide and stress fracture healing in young adults (RETURN – Research on Efficacy of Teriparatide Use in the Return of recruits to Normal duty): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Fig. 1

Overview of the trial design, interventions and assessments. 1Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D < 30 nmol/L, deficient; ≥30 nmol/L, not deficient; 2Pregnancy test for all at baseline, week 16 and 24, and four-weekly for participants allocated to the intervention arm; 3Weekly visual analogue scale; 4Short Form (36) Health Survey; 5Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan of the lumbar spine and hips (baseline and week 16 only); peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) scan of the diaphyseal tibia; and high-resolution pQCT (HR-pQCT) scan of the metaphyseal tibia and radius; 6Accelerometer worn 24 h/day and replaced four-weekly; 7Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) for all at baseline, and four-weekly for participants allocated to the intervention arm; 8Review of Army fitness records; 9Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to cease when fracture is radiologically healed; 10Clinical assessments twice weekly after fracture is radiologically healed, and to cease when fracture is clinically healed; 11Review of Army medical records

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