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 ...

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 ...

Before the development of methodologies that enabled accurate measurement of bone mineral density (BMD), diagnosis of osteoporosis relied upon the occurrence of low impact fractures. Initially, BMD ...

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 ...

Effect of adjuvant and salvage radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy on urinary continence. Bone and soft tissue response from a phase I/II study with ODM-201 in metastatic castration-resistant ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of 6,049 women aged 65 years or older, data indicate 18.5% were obese and incident clinical fractures occurred ...

An osteoporosis screening strategy using FRAX as a pre-screening tool is cost-effective if the follow up of the screening and medication adherence are optimized, research shows. FRAX (WHO Fracture ...

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 ...

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 78-year-old white male who is a nonsmoker; I am 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weigh 135 pounds, and consider myself to be in excellent health. A diagnosis from a recent bone density ...