A systematic review of intervention thresholds based on FRAX: a report prepared for the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group and the International Osteoporosis …

JA Kanis, NC Harvey, C Cooper, H Johansson… - Archives of …, 2016 - Springer
This systematic review identified assessment guidelines for osteoporosis that incorporate
FRAX. The rationale for intervention thresholds is given in a minority of papers. Intervention …

[HTML][HTML] 2010 clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in Canada: summary

A Papaioannou, S Morin, AM Cheung, S Atkinson… - Cmaj, 2010 - Can Med Assoc
Since the publication of the Osteoporosis Canada guide-lines in 2002, there has been a
paradigm shift in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and fractures. 1, 2 The focus …

Relationship among body fat percentage, body mass index, and all-cause mortality

R Padwal, SR Majumdar, WD Leslie - Annals of internal medicine, 2016 - acpjournals.org
TO THE EDITOR: Financial incentives can reinforce consumer behavior (for example,
offering money back for using a specific credit card), and these procedures are gaining …

Update of the fracture risk prediction tool FRAX: a systematic review of potential cohorts and analysis plan

L Vandenput, H Johansson, EV McCloskey… - Osteoporosis …, 2022 - Springer
We describe the collection of cohorts together with the analysis plan for an update of the
fracture risk prediction tool FRAX with respect to current and novel risk factors. The resource …

FRAX underestimates fracture risk in patients with diabetes

LM Giangregorio, WD Leslie, LM Lix… - Journal of bone and …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The study objective was to determine whether diabetes is a risk factor for incident hip or
major osteoporotic fractures independent of the WHO fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) …

A decade of FRAX: how has it changed the management of osteoporosis?

JA Kanis, NC Harvey, H Johansson, E Liu… - Aging clinical and …, 2020 - Springer
The fracture risk assessment tool, FRAX®, was released in 2008 and provides country-
specific algorithms for estimating individualized 10-year probability of hip and major …

The clinical epidemiology of male osteoporosis: a review of the recent literature

T Willson, SD Nelson, J Newbold, RE Nelson… - Clinical …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Osteoporosis, a musculoskeletal disease characterized by decreased bone mineral density
(BMD) and an increased risk of fragility fractures, is now recognized as an important public …

Genetics of osteoporosis from genome-wide association studies: advances and challenges

JB Richards, HF Zheng, TD Spector - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Osteoporosis is among the most common and costly diseases and is increasing in
prevalence owing to the ageing of our global population. Clinically defined largely through …

Screening to prevent osteoporotic fractures: updated evidence report and systematic review for the US Preventive Services Task Force

M Viswanathan, S Reddy, N Berkman, K Cullen… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Osteoporotic fractures cause significant morbidity and mortality. Objective To
update the evidence on screening and treatment to prevent osteoporotic fractures for the US …

Comparison of methods for improving fracture risk assessment in diabetes: the Manitoba BMD registry

WD Leslie, H Johansson, EV McCloskey… - Journal of Bone and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for fracture independent of FRAX (fracture risk assessment)
probability. We directly compared four proposed methods to improve the performance of …