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 ...

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 ...

The fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) has become the most popular predictor in clinical practice since it was developed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(HealthDay News) — The World Health Organization (WHO) Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) underestimates the risk of recurrent fragility fractures (FFs) at the time of a FF, according to research ...

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 ...

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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 ...