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- Title
BMD, clinical risk factors and their combination for hip fracture prevention.
- Authors
Johansson, H; Kanis, J A; Oden, A; Johnell, O; McCloskey, E
- Abstract
This study examined the effects of the use of clinical risk factors (CRFs) alone, BMD alone or the combination using the FRAX tool for the detection of women at risk of hip fracture. BMD tests alone selected women at higher risk and a greater number of hip fracture cases were identified compared to the use of CRFs alone. The combined use of CRFs and BMD identified fewer women above a threshold risk than the use of BMD alone, but with a higher hip fracture risk and thus had the more favourable positive predictive value (PPV) and number needed to treat (NNT).
- Publication
Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2009, Vol 20, Issue 10, p1675
- ISSN
1433-2965
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00198-009-0845-x