title: "Evidence-based" or "logic-based" medicine?
abstract: Low trauma fractures are the cardinal manifestation of osteoporosis. Their occurrence supersedes bone mineral density in deciding whether specific therapy is warranted. We therefore disagree with the notion that a densitometric threshold for treatment should be applied to patients over age 50 who suffer low trauma distal radius fracture.
authors.affiliation: Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center, William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI, USA. rdb@medicine.wisc.edu
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Blank
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Bilezikian
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Bonnick
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Laster
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Leib
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Lewiecki
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Watts
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Binkley
mesh_terms: D015519:Bone Density; D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008128:Logic; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D058866:Osteoporotic Fractures / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018579:Patient Selection; D011885:Radius Fractures / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents
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