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Recommendations for Bone Mineral Density Reporting in Canada: A Shift to Absolute Fracture Risk Assessment

✍ Scribed by Siminoski, Kerry; Leslie, William D.; Frame, Heather; Hodsman, Anthony; Josse, Robert G.; Khan, Aliya; Lentle, Brian C.; Levesque, Jacques; Lyons, David J.; Tarulli, Giuseppe

Book ID
123111696
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
83 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
1094-6950

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## Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) computes 10‐year probability of major osteoporotic fracture from multiple risk factors, including femoral neck (FN) __T__‐scores. Lumbar spine (LS) measurements are not currently part of the FRAX formulation but ar