Fracture risk assessment in postmenopausal women referred to an Italian center for osteoporosis: a single day experience in Messina.

Fracture risk assessment in postmenopausal women referred to an Italian center for osteoporosis: a single day experience in Messina. Clin Cases Miner Bone Metab. 2013 Sep;10(3):191-4 Authors: Catalano A, Morabito N, Basile G, Fusco S, Castagna G, Reitano F, Albanese RC, Lasco A Abstract Osteoporosis is a major cause of fragility fractures and these are responsible of large social burden; nevertheless, osteoporosis often remains an underdiagnosed disease. FRAX is a new and simple validate fracture risk assessment tool helping physicians to select patients at high risk of future fragility fractures. To promote early diagnosis of osteoporosis, we evaluated fracture risk by FRAX and performed phalangeal quantitative ultrasound (QUS) measurements in a population of postmenopausal women referring to our center during the World Osteoporosis Day on 20th October 2011. Eighty post-menopausal women (age 60.8±8.6) were screened and the risk of major osteoporotic and hip fractures over ten years was calculated by considering multiple clinical risk factors (CRFs). The median risk of major osteoporotic fracture (%) was 4.9 (3.5-8.6) in women younger than 55 years, 7.3 (5.4-11) in women aged between 55 and 65 years and 17.5 (11-27) in women older than 65 years; the median risk of hip fracture (%) was 0.6 (0.3-1.3), 1.5 (0.9-2.5) and 7.2 (3.1-14) respectively. QUS measurements, were lower in the older women and when multiple CRFs coexisted, and were...
Source: Clinical Cases in Mineral and Bone Metabolism - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Clin Cases Miner Bone Metab Source Type: research