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Predicting Fracture Risk

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The risk of any outcome can be expressed in a variety of different ways, as was noted in Chapter 3. 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, other measures of risk are employed as well such as the fracture threshold, lifetime risk, and remaining lifetime fracture probability. These are quantitative measures of risk. Qualitative fracture risk assessments may also be useful. Although there is no question that a measurement of bone density can predict fracture risk, none of the measures used clinically to express fracture risk is ideal. A physician should ultimately use whichever expression of risk best conveys the implications for fracture based on the patient’s BMD.

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Bonnick, S.L. (2004). Predicting Fracture Risk. In: Bone Densitometry in Clinical Practice. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-659-1_10

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