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 ...

FRAX is available in 18 languages: English, Arabic, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...