[Prediction of fracture risk by QUS parameters].
It was reported that QUS may be set to predictor which evaluates the risk of fracture by large-scale epidemiology investigation conducted in Europe and America. All the prospective researches which computed relative risk of the fracture on elderly people who produced femur neck fracture beforehand, from the measured value of DXA and QUS. SOF and EPIDOS are the typical research. It was beforehand shown by any research that QUS predict fracture risk as well as DXA.
Yamazaki
Kaoru
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine.