title: RETRACTED: Three-year experience with alendronate treatment in postmenopausal osteoporotic Japanese women with or without type 2 diabetes.
abstract: This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal).
  This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief due to concerns about the integrity of the research reported. The concerns include but are not limited to study conduct, including discrepancies in reporting of study design and methodology, unacknowledged text and data duplication, and implausible timeframes and data.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Integrated Sports Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan. Electronic address: jiwamoto@sc.itc.keio.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Iwamoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Mitate Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keiyu Orthopaedic Hospital, Gunma, Japan.
authors.forename: Mitsuyoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uzawa
authors.affiliation: Institute for Integrated Sports Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.affiliation: Institute for Integrated Sports Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019386:Alendronate / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D044466:Asian People; D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008875:Middle Aged; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents; D019386:Alendronate