FRAX: Facts and Fantasy

Overview

Journal Indian J Endocrinol Metab

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 2013 Apr 9

PMID 23565383

Citations 5

Authors

Yashpal Gogate

Sanjay Kumar Bhadada

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Abstract

FRAX is an important web based tool to assess fragility fracture risk in osteoporosis. It has many important limitations too. Good clinical judgement is needed to interpret the results of FRAX. With increasing use we can improvise this tool further.

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