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Commonly used tool found to be suboptimal in predicting osteoporosis fracture risk in younger post-menopausal women
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Commonly used tool found to be suboptimal in predicting osteoporosis fracture risk in younger post-menopausal women

by University of California, Los Angeles Credit: CC0 Public Domain The commonly used Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX), which includes self-identified race and ethnicity information, and the Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool (OST), which does not, had suboptimal performance in determining major osteoporotic fracture risk across racial/ethnic categories in younger postmenopausal women. But OST was excellent for identifying...