Latin America's population is ageing and as a result the region is facing a rapid increase in the prevalence of osteoporosis and fragility fractures. The newly published Fracture Risk Assessment Tool ...

Despite its ability to significantly improve risk assessment for osteoporosis, the World Health Organization's Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) has widely varying usage around the world, according ...

FRAX® is a computer-based algorithm to help predict the 10-year risk of fragility fracture. Now with 34 specific country models, FRAX is being used increasingly by physicians around the world to help ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Variables added to adjust the Fracture Risk Assessment Tool for recent fractures overestimated risk in a cohort ...

The International Osteoporosis Foundation released a position paper that opposes removing racial and ethnic-based adjustments from FRAX as recommended by the American Society of Bone and Mineral ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The World Health Organization (WHO) Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) is now easily accessible via iPhone, ...

Widely used fracture risk assessment calculator adds models for Croatia, Estonia, Israel and Venezuela; FRAX now available to clinicians in 57 countries The fracture risk assessment calculator FRAX is ...

The commonly used Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX), which includes self-identified race and ethnicity information, and the Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool (OST), which does not, have suboptimal ...

HOUSTON, Texas — Use of hypnotic medications for insomnia and use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are each associated with an increased risk for osteoporotic and hip fractures in ...