Top

Archives of Osteoporosis

Published in:

01-12-2018 | Letter to the Editor

New FRAX-based intervention and assessment thresholds for the Ecuadorian population

Authors: Enrique Lopez Gavilanez, Antonio W. D. Gavilanes, Peter Chedraui, Angel Segale Bajaña

Published in: Archives of Osteoporosis | Issue 1/2018

Excerpt

Dear Editor …

Clark P, Denova-Gutiérrez E, Zerbini C, Sanchez A, Messina O, Jaller JJ, Campusano C, Orces CH, Riera G, Johansson H, Kanis JA (2018) FRAX-based intervention and assessment thresholds in seven Latin American countries. Osteoporos Int 29:707–715CrossRef

Kanis JA, Closkey EV, Johansson H, Strom O, Borgstrom F, Oden A, National Osteoporosis Guideline Group (2008) Case finding for the management of osteoporosis with FRAX-assessment and intervention thresholds for the UK. Osteoporos Int 19:1395–1408CrossRef

Compston J, Cooper A, Cooper C, Francis R, Kanis JA, Marsh D, McCloskey EV, Reid DM, Selby P, Wilkins M, on behalf of the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group (NOGG) (2009) Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and men from the age of 50 years in the UK. Maturitas 62:105–108CrossRef

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence NICE Clinical Guideline 146 (2014) Osteoporosis: assessing the risk of fragility fracture. NICE, UK https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg146. Accessed 18 May 2015

Orces CH (2009) Epidemiology of hip fractures in Ecuador. Rev Panam Salud Publica 25:438–442CrossRef

Estimaciones y proyecciones de población total, urbana y rural, y económicamente activa. América latina. Ecuador. Revisión 2016. Disponible en http://www.cepal.org/es/temas/proyecciones-demograficas/estimaciones-proyecciones-poblacion-total-urbana-rural-economicamente-activa. Accessed 20 June 2017

López Gavilánez E, Chedraui P, Guerrero Franco K, Marriott Blum D, Palacio Riofrío J, Segale Bajaña A (2018) Fracturas osteoporóticas de cadera en adultos mayores en Ecuador 2016. Rev Osteoporos Metab Miner. ISSN 2173-2345

Lopez Gavilanez E, Guerrero Franco K, Bautista Litardo N, Navarro Chávez M, Hernández Bonilla M, Regalado Alvarado C, Abad Gualpa H, Palacio Riofrio J (2018) In-hospital osteoporotic hip fracture mortality in older adults in Ecuador. Osteoporos Int 29(Supplement 1):137–553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-018-4435-7 CrossRef

Title: New FRAX-based intervention and assessment thresholds for the Ecuadorian population
Authors: Enrique Lopez Gavilanez
Antonio W. D. Gavilanes
Peter Chedraui
Angel Segale Bajaña
Publication date: 01-12-2018
Publisher: Springer London
Published in: Archives of Osteoporosis / Issue 1/2018
Print ISSN: 1862-3522
Electronic ISSN: 1862-3514
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11657-018-0521-x

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

Springer Medicine

New FRAX-based intervention and assessment thresholds for the Ecuadorian population

Excerpt

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

Springer Medicine

Excerpt

Please log in to get access to this content

Other articles of this Issue 1/2018

Chronic hemodialysis is associated with lower trabecular bone score, independent of bone mineral density: a case-control study

Global sagittal alignment in elderly patients with osteoporosis and its relationship with severity of vertebral fracture and quality of life

Correction to: Treatment patterns in patients with osteoporosis at high risk of fracture in Japan: retrospective chart review

Changes in bone mineral density (BMD): a longitudinal study of osteoporosis patients in the real-world setting

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Secular trends in major osteoporotic fractures among 50+ adults in Denmark between 1995 and 2010

Osteosarcopenic obesity and its relationship with dyslipidemia in women from different ethnic groups of China