CHICAGO — The strengths of the WHO fracture risk assessment tool prediction algorithm are many, but limitations in clinical practice remain, two speakers said here at the North American Menopause ...

FRAX®, launched by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases in 2008, calculates 10-year probability of osteoporotic fracture based on scientifically validated clinical risk factors ...

Before the development of methodologies that enabled accurate measurement of bone mineral density (BMD), diagnosis of osteoporosis relied upon the occurrence of low impact fractures. Initially, BMD ...

Widely used fracture risk assessment calculator adds models for Croatia, Estonia, Israel and Venezuela; FRAX now available to clinicians in 57 countries The fracture risk assessment calculator FRAX is ...

Yes, it is a beneficial tool because the old-fashioned way of talking about risk was to say that someone had two-times the risk or 1.5-times the risk of the general population for something untoward ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an active, 5-foot-2-inch, 125-pound, 72-year-old Caucasian woman without a history of known osteoporotic risk factors, other than demographic ones. I exercise daily, eat calcium ...

The easily calculated Male Osteoporosis Risk Estimation Score (MORES), based on clinical risk factors alone, is a more effective screening tool for osteoporosis in men than the web-based, more complex ...