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 ...

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 ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis of 13 tools for predicting osteoporotic fracture risk found that most were feasible in clinical practice; the World Health Organization Fracture Risk ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trends in androgen-deprivation therapy use among privately insured men with prostate cancer, 2001-2010. FRAX without BMD and T-score-0.318 < 0.005 This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO ...

(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 ...