title: Understanding the burden of osteoporosis and use of the World Health Organization FRAX.
abstract: Fracture prevention is a critical component of managing osteoporosis, which is not longer defined by T-score alone. The internationally validated World Health Organization Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) provides the clinician a state-of-the-art tool for predicting patients at greatest risk for fracture. The FRAX tool takes into account country, bone mineral density of the hip (when available), age, sex, and 8 clinical risk factors to calculate the 10-year probability of a major osteoporotic fracture and the 10-year probability of a hip fracture. From this tool, an absolute fracture risk is generated, aiding clinicians in determining which patients with low bone mass and osteoporosis to treat.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA. shulerf@marshall.edu
authors.forename: Franklin D
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Shuler
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Conjeski
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kendall
authors.forename: Jonathon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Salava
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D012042:Registries; D012307:Risk Factors; D014944:World Health Organization