Osteoporosis

Data on osteoporosis discussed by B. Ettinger and colleagues

Published in OBGYN and Reproduction Week, November 3rd, 2008

"The World Health Organization and the Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education have each recently posted fracture risk assessment tools on Web sites. To be most useful, these tools need to provide risk data in a form that is easily used by clinicians as they discuss treatment options with their patients," investigators in the United States report.

"This article critiques these two tools and offers clinicians suggestions for key elements that should be included in fracture risk reports. Reports based oil risk assessment tools need to provide data in a meaningful form that patients call easily grasp," wrote B. Ettinger and colleagues.

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Source: OBGYN and Reproduction Week (2008-11-03)

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