Identifying Younger Postmenopausal Women With Osteoporosis Using USPSTF-Recommended Osteoporosis Risk Assessment Tools.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

For younger postmenopausal women, clinical guidelines recommend using osteoporosis risk prediction tools to identify candidates with low bone mineral density (BMD). However, the performance of these tools is not well quantified.

Objective

To examine the performance of Osteoporosis Risk Assessment Instrument (ORAI) and Osteoporosis Index of Risk (OSIRIS), compared with Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool (OST), in identifying the presence of osteoporotic BMD in younger postmenopausal women.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data from the Women's Health Initiative Bone Density Substudy, which was conducted at 3 clinical centers in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Birmingham, Alabama. Participants were he

SUBMITTER: Zheng HW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11920839 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature