Bone Abstracts

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Introduction: Osteoporotic fractures are known to be costly to society but estimates tend to be based on small scale prospective studies. In the following we report national data for healthcare costs due to fractures in patients with osteoporosis.Study population and methods: All Danish residents aged 35+, mean age 70.5 years, 13% men, 27.3% prior major osteoporotic fracture, who began bisphosphonates for osteoporosis between 1/1997 and 12/2002 (n</e...

Introduction: Communication of absolute and relative risks is challenging despite the development of tools to quickly derive absolute fracture risk estimates from risk factors with or without BMD. We speculated that back-transformation of risks to a risk age could make for a clearer message and at the same time increase agreement between risk algorithms.Results: The algorithms differed less in estimated bone health age than in percent risk. A 60 years ol...