About the Authors
- Giovanni Cizza
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* E-mail: cizzag@intra.niddk.nih.gov
Affiliation Section on Neuroendocrinology of Obesity, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Sima Mistry
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Affiliation Tulane University Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
- Vi T. Nguyen
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Affiliation Section on Neuroendocrinology of Obesity, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Farideh Eskandari
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Affiliation Section on Neuroendocrinology of Obesity, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Pedro Martinez
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Affiliation Behavioral Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Sara Torvik
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Affiliation Section on Neuroendocrinology of Obesity, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- James C. Reynolds
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Affiliation Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Philip W. Gold
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Affiliation Behavioral Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Ninet Sinai
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Affiliation Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Gyorgy Csako
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Affiliation Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- for the POWER Study Group
Competing Interests
Alendronate and Placebo were generously provided by Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ. The informatics support for this study was provided by Mr. Frank Pierce from ®Esprit Health. Giovanni Cizza was a former Merck Employee and currently owns Merck stock options. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: G. Cizza PWG G. Csako. Performed the experiments: G. Cizza FE PM ST JCR. Analyzed the data: G. Cizza SM VTN FE ST NS G. Csako. Wrote the paper: G. Cizza SM PM ST G. Csako.