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All articles tagged: Age-related osteoporosis with current pathological fracture, unspecified site, initial encounter for fracture (M80.00XA)

HealthDay 11 January at 04.59 AM

Common Tools Suboptimal for ID'ing Fracture Risk in Younger Postmenopausal Women

The Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) and the Osteoporosis Self-assessment Tool (OST) have suboptimal performance for predicting 10-year major osteoporotic fracture risk across racial/ethnic categories in younger postmenopausal women; however, the OST has excellent discrimination for identifying osteoporosis, according to a study published online Ma