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Evaluation of Screening Status and Fracture Risks of Postmenopausal Women for Osteoporosis
Forbes Tıp Dergisi, 2023 Objective: Osteoporosis is a disease with high mortality and morbidity, and expensive to treat, reducing the quality of life of patients. It is aimed to evaluate the status of screening of postmenopausal women for osteoporosis in primary care and the ...
Burhan BALABAN, Zeynep AŞIK
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Children, 2022 Background: Fractures are common in children and a frequent cause of emergency department (ED) visits. Fractures can cause long-term complications, such as growth problems.
Amber Carlijn Traa +5 more
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Development of floor safety assessment method based on risk of femur fracture during fall
Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2023 As Japan faces a super-aging society, the increasing number of elderly people who are bedridden due to fall fractures has become a major social issue. Hip protectors have, thus, been proposed to prevent femoral fractures in cases of tumbling or falling ...
Yasumi ITO +6 more
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Changes in bone quality after switching from a TDF to a TAF based ART: A pilot randomized study
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 BackgroundThe impact of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) antiretroviral (ART) regimens on bone health has been characterized mostly by bone mineral density (BMD), but recently also by bone quality (BQ).
Jade Soldado-Folgado +12 more
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Diagnostics, 2022 The current definition of osteoporosis includes alteration of bone quality. The assessment of bone quality is improved by the development of new texture analysis softwares.
Paul Knoepflin +10 more
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Obesity and fracture risk [PDF]
Clinical Cases in Mineral and Bone Metabolism, 2014 Obesity and osteoporosis are two common diseases with an increasing prevalence and a high impact on morbidity and mortality. Obese women have always been considered protected against osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures. However, several recent studies have challenged the widespread belief that obesity is protective against fracture and have ...
Gonnelli, S., Caffarelli, C., Nuti, R.
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2023 Purpose: Bone health and osteoporosis are significant health problems in Saudi Arabia. Approximately 40%–50% of women and 25%–33% of men sustain osteoporotic fractures in their lifetimes. Hence, identifying the risk factors for osteoporosis is crucial in
Sarah I Bin Hussain +3 more
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The Assessment of Fracture Risk [PDF]
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume, 2010 Bone mineral density is considered to be the standard measure for the diagnosis of osteoporosis and the assessment of fracture risk. The majority of fragility fractures occur in patients with bone mineral density in the osteopenic range. The Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) can be used as an assessment modality for the prediction of fractures on ...
Aasis, Unnanuntana +3 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 Clinical vertebral fractures and femoral neck fractures are severe osteoporotic fractures that increase morbidity and mortality. Anthropometric variables are associated with an increased risk of osteoporotic fractures, but it is not clear whether body ...
Xi-Yu Wu +9 more
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