Total Hip Bone Area Affects Fracture Prediction With FRAX® in Canadian White Women | Zendy

William D. Leslie | Zendy; Lisa M. Lix | Zendy; Sumit R. Majumdar | Zendy; Suzanne N. Morin | Zendy; Helena Johansson | Zendy; Anders Odén | Zendy; Eugène McCloskey | Zendy; John А. Kanis | Zendy

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Total Hip Bone Area Affects Fracture Prediction With FRAX® in Canadian White Women

Author(s) -

William D. Leslie,

Lisa M. Lix,

Sumit R. Majumdar,

Suzanne N. Morin,

Helena Johansson,

Anders Odén,

Eugène McCloskey,

John А. Kanis

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206

H-Index - 353

eISSN - 1945-7197

pISSN - 0021-972X

DOI - 10.1210/jc.2017-01327

Subject(s) - frax , medicine , hip fracture , hazard ratio , osteoporosis , confidence interval , cohort , cohort study , population , bone mineral , osteoporotic fracture , environmental health

Areal bone mineral density (BMD) measurements are confounded by skeletal size. Hip BMD is an input to the FRAX® tool (Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), but it is unknown whether performance is affected by hip area.

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