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In Chapter 3 it was noted that there are several ways to assess the risk of any outcome. The more commonly used measures of risk are prevalence, incidence, absolute and relative risk, and odds ratios. All of these measures can be employed in the specific context of the assessment of fracture risk. In densitometry, new measures of risk are being employed as well, such as the fracture threshold, lifetime risk, and remaining-lifetime fracture probability. A physician may choose to use whichever measure of risk best conveys the clinical importance of the patient’s BMD.
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Bonnick, S.L. (1998). The Prediction of Fracture Risk with Densitometry. In: Bone Densitometry in Clinical Practice. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2780-7_6
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