Open AccessFRAX first – Pragmatic approach in resource poor settings
Author(s) -
Adlyne Reena Asirvatham,
Karthik Balachandran,
Subramanian Kannan,
Satish Kumar Balasubramaniam,
Shriraam Mahadevan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.456
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2230-9500
pISSN - 2230-8210
DOI - 10.4103/ijem.ijem_412_18
Subject(s) - frax , medicine , osteoporosis , hip fracture , bone mineral , osteopenia , physical therapy , osteoporotic fracture
Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) is a fracture prediction tool that uses clinical risk factors with or without bone mineral density (BMD). BMD is difficult to obtain in resource-limited setting. Hence, we aimed to compare fracture risk prediction by FRAX without BMD (FRAX) and FRAX with BMD (FRAX/BMD).