Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT: Introduction
For older men who undergo bone mineral density (BMD) testing, the optimal osteoporosis screening schedule is unknown. Time-to-disease estimates are necessary to inform screening intervals.Methods
A prospective cohort study of 5,415 community-dwelling men aged ≥65 years without hip or clinical vertebral fracture or antifracture treatment at baseline was conducted. Participants had concurrent BMD and fracture follow-up between 2000 and 2009, and additional fracture follow-up through 2014. Data were analyzed in 2015. Time to incident osteoporosis (lowest T-score ≤ -2.50) for men without baseline osteoporosis, and time to hip or clinical vertebral fracture or major osteoporotic fracture for men without or with baseline osteoporosis, were estimated.Results
Nine men (0.2%) with BMD T-scores >-1.50 at baseline developed osteoporosis during follow-up. The adjusted estimated time for 10% to develop osteoporosis was 8.5 (95% CI=6.7, 10.9) years for those with moderate osteopenia (lowest T-score, -1.50 to -1.99) and 2.7 (95% CI=2.1, 3.4) years for those with advanced osteopenia (lowest T-score, -2.00 to -2.49) at baseline. The adjusted times for 3% to develop a first hip or clinical vertebral fracture ranged from 7.1 (95% CI=6.0, 8.3) years in men with baseline T-scores > -1.50 to 1.7 (95% CI=1.0, 3.1) years in men with baseline osteoporosis.Conclusions
Men aged 65 years and older with femoral neck, total hip, and lumbar spine BMD T-scores >-1.50 on a first BMD test were very unlikely to develop osteoporosis during follow-up. Additional BMD testing may be most informative in older men with T-scores ≤-1.50.
SUBMITTER: Gourlay ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4875888 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gourlay Margaret L ML Overman Robert A RA Fine Jason P JP Filteau Guillaume G Cawthon Peggy M PM Schousboe John T JT Orwoll Eric S ES Wilt Timothy J TJ Nguyen Tuan V TV Lane Nancy E NE Szulc Pawel P Taylor Brent C BC Dam Thuy-Tien TT Nielson Carrie M CM Cauley Jane A JA Barrett-Connor Elizabeth E Fink Howard A HA Lapidus Jodi A JA Kado Deborah M DM Diem Susan J SJ Ensrud Kristine E KE
American journal of preventive medicine 20160125 6
<h4>Introduction</h4>For older men who undergo bone mineral density (BMD) testing, the optimal osteoporosis screening schedule is unknown. Time-to-disease estimates are necessary to inform screening intervals.<h4>Methods</h4>A prospective cohort study of 5,415 community-dwelling men aged ≥65 years without hip or clinical vertebral fracture or antifracture treatment at baseline was conducted. Participants had concurrent BMD and fracture follow-up between 2000 and 2009, and additional fracture fol ...[more]