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Fracture risk assessment
Orthopaedics and Trauma, 10/31/08
Francis RM et al. - The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently developed a Fracture Risk Assessment Tool. This uses clinical risk factors, including prior fracture after age of 50 years, parental hip fracture, current smoking, oral steroid therapy, alcohol intake >2 units/day and chronic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, with or without femoral neck BMD, to estimate the ten year probability of hip and other major osteoporotic fractures.
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