Most authorities recommend treatment when the risk of a major osteoporotic fracture is greater than 20% or the risk of a hip fracture is greater than 3%. Your primary doctor is following the ...

Fractures can occur from minor bumps or falls, most commonly in the hips, wrists, and spine.These warning signs of ...

The main outcomes were a major osteoporotic fracture (MOF; defined as a fracture in the spine, wrist/forearm, shoulder/proximal humerus, or hip) or hip fracture (upper part of the femur).

Weakened and brittle bones often result in osteoporotic fractures, many of which can pose major longterm complications, some of which are deadly. But while existing medication regimens either ...

The Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX), with bone mineral density, predicts the risk for major osteoporotic fractures and hip fractures in patients with cancer, but FRAX without bone mineral ...

Fractures that occurred at any prior time in adulthood were associated with fracture risk in older adults, a cohort study ...

During a mean follow-up of 9 years, 14.6% of individuals had incident fractures. Of these, 14% were osteoporotic, 10.6% were major osteoporotic and 3.5% were hip fractures. Researchers observed ...

osteoporotic fracture, major osteoporotic fracture and hip fracture. One or more previous falls were linked with a higher risk of death in women and men. But men had higher predictive values ...

Any clinical fractures, hip fractures and major osteoporotic fractures were collected. Of Hispanic participants, 37.7% stated they were Mexican. Japanese women was the most common origin subgroup ...