Comparison of fracture risk assessment tools in older men without prior hip or spine fracture: the MrOS study.

ABSTRACT: Femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD), age plus femoral neck BMD T score, and three externally generated fracture risk tools had similar accuracy to identify older men who developed osteoporotic fractures. Risk tools with femoral neck BMD performed better than those without BMD. The externally developed risk tools were poorly calibrated. INTRODUCTION:We compared the performance of fracture risk assessment tools in older men, accounting for competing risks including mortality. METHODS:A comparative ROC curve analysis assessed the ability of the QFracture, FRAX® and Garvan fracture risk tools, and femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) T score with or without age to identify incident fracture in community-dwelling men aged 65 years or older (N = 4994) without hip or clinical vertebral fra

SUBMITTER: Gourlay ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5695884 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature