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 ...
A new, user-friendly platform for the freely available online FRAX ® calculator now hosts the beta version of FRAXplus ®, an optional extra that illustrates how fragility fracture risk probabilities ...
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 ...
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Today, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases at the University of Sheffield, UK announced the launch of a ...
The widely used World Health Organization's Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) vastly underestimates the risk for fragility fractures, according to a study published online April 29 in the Journal ...
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 ...
FRAX® has been incorporated into many national and international guidelines for osteoporosis management. The online tool alone has processed over 9 million calculations. Fractures secondary to ...
The commonly used Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) is not useful for shared clinical decision-making regarding osteoporosis screening in younger postmenopausal women. Both Fracture Risk Assessment ...