Osteoporosis
Accuracy of osteoporosis risk assessment tools may vary by ethnicity
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 10th, 2006
"Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), coupled with early treatment, may reduce morbidity and mortality associated with osteoporosis. Clinical tools to enhance selection of women for DXA screening have not been developed or validated in an ethnically diverse population," according to researchers at the University of Texas in Galveston.
The objective of a study by A.R. Cass and colleagues was "to compare the performance of the osteoporosis risk assessment instrument (ORAI) and the simple calculated osteoporosis risk estimation (SCORE) instrument across 3 racial/ethnic groups...
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