• Song-Li Pan, Chen-Cui Li, Hong-Wang Cui, Wen-Xian Wang, and Chun-Hong Li.
• Department of Spine Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, 31, Longhua RD, Haikou, Hainan, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Oct 1; 100 (39): e27197e27197.

BackgroundAdministering corticosteroid is an effective therapeutic strategy for treating most inflammatory conditions. However, there is a chance for corticosteroid treatment to adversely affect bones, resulting in corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis, which is a highly prevalent type of secondary osteoporosis. Elevated bone resorption and reduced formation of bone are pathogenesis indicators of corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis. Preventative therapy is recommended for patients initiating steroids. This study aims to evaluate the efficiency of calcium and vitamin D in treating adults diagnosed with osteoporosis caused by corticosteroid therapy.MethodsElectronic databases will be searched systematically to source studies that have evaluated the efficiency of calcium and vitamin D as a treatment method for adult patients with osteoporosis from corticosteroid therapy. The databases include, PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Web of Science. The timeline of the search will be limited from inception to November 2020. This study will utilize the Cochrane risk of bias tool to assess the quality of the studies reviewed. Moreover, appropriate methods will be chosen to analyze the data. The RevMan 5.3 software is utilized to perform statistical analysis.ResultsThis study will provide additional practical and targeted results of evaluating the efficiency of calcium and vitamin D in treating adults with corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis.ConclusionThe results of this study will provide further evidence about calcium and vitamin D in treating adults with corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis, clinicians and policymakers can make practical use of the results.Ethics And DisseminationSince this systematic review does not involve any human or animal participants, an ethics approval is not required.Systematic Review RegistrationAug 19, 2021. osf.io/zvb38. (https://osf.io/zvb38/).Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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