FRAX® is probably the single most important development in osteoporosis management since the T-score definition of BMD was introduced in 1994 (also led by the University of Sheffield). It provides an ...

FRAX®, the essential ... University of Sheffield, UK in 2008, FRAX® is a major milestone in helping health professionals improve the identification of patients at high risk of fracture.

SELF-FRAX is a cross-sectional observational cohort study designed to investigate fracture risk factors in men and women aged 50 years and over. ... The SELF-FRAX study is being led by the University ...

The developers of FRAX are located at the University of Sheffield, U.K., where the metabolic bone disease unit at the University of Sheffield was designated as a WHO Collaborating Center.

This important new study by Kanis et al provides probability ratios that can be used to adjust conventional FRAX estimates of fracture probability by accounting for the site of a recent fracture.

New – FRAX Desktop: FRAX is now available for use without internet. Subscriptions are available for individual or multi-patient entry versions.

The WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX®), developed by the Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases at the University of Sheffield, is an easy-to-use tool to calculate an individual patient's 10 ...

Science X Science News Wire : FRAX newly released as version 3.8 -- Over 5 million online calculations since June 2011 -- a press release is provided to you ìas isî with little or no review from ...

If your FRAX score is 3% or more for hip fracture, or 20% or more for other major osteoporosis fractures, you may be at increased risk of fracture. Your doctor may recommend treatment to reduce ...

FRAX score should be the first choice in daily practice for patients with no history of recurrent falls, and GARVAN might be more appropriate for patients who have already had falls, Willem F ...

Community screening using the FRAX risk assessment tool reduced hip fractures over 5 years compared with usual care, although not other osteoporotic or clinical fracture rates, in older women.

Today, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases at the University of Sheffield, UK announced the launch of a ...