Osteoporosis
Scientists at Geneva University describe research in osteoporosis
Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 27th, 2007
"We hypothesized that combining clinical risk factors (CRF) with the heel stiffness index (SI) measured via quantitative ultrasound (QUS) would improve the detection of women both at low and high risk for hip fracture. Categorizing women by risk score improved the specificity of detection to 42.4%, versus 33.8% using CRF alone and 38.4% using the SI alone," scientists in Geneva, Switzerland report.
"This combined CRF-SI score could be used wherever and whenever DXA is not readily accessible. Introduction and hypothesis Several strategies have been proposed to identify women at high risk for osteoporosis-related fractures; we wanted to investigate whether combining...
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