               Kenneth G Saag MD, MSc 1 , Donato Agnusdei MD 2 , Didier Hans PhD 3 , Lynn A Kohlmeier MD 4 , Kelly D Krohn MD 5 , Edward S Leib MD 6 , Edmund J MacLaughlin MD 7 , Jahangir Alam MS 2 , Christine Simonelli MD 8 , Kathleen A Taylor PhD 5 , Robert Marcus MD 9 1 Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, United States 2 BMJ Platform Team, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, United States 3 Bone and Joint Department, Center of Bone Diseases, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland 4 Department of Endocrinology, Spokane Osteoporosis, Spokane, United States 5 Lilly USA, Indianapolis, United States 6 Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, United States 7 Edmund J. MacLaughlin, MD, LLC, Cambridge, United States 8 HealthEast Osteoporosis Care, St. Paul, United States 9 Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, United States     !" #$"% Kenneth G. Saag, MD, MSc University of Alabama at Birmingham, FOT 820 1530 Third Avenue South Birmingham, AL 35294;3408 Telephone: (205) 996;9784 Fax: 205;975;6859 E;mail: ksaag@uab.edu &’ (% glucocorticoid;induced osteoporosis, GIO, TBS, BMD, teriparatide, alendronate )!!)!)*+, for primary study: NCT00051558 Funded by Eli Lilly and Company and/or one of its wholly;owned subsidiaries (Lilly) Full Length Arthritis & Rheumatology DOI 10.1002/art.39726 This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as an ‘Accepted Article’, doi: 10.1002/art.39726 © 2016 American College of Rheumatology Received: Nov 05, 2015; Revised: Mar 28, 2016; Accepted: Apr 14, 2016 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.