The FRAX-based Lebanese osteoporosis treatment guidelines: rationale for a hybrid model

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• 作者：M. Chakhtoura ; W. D. Leslie ; M. McClung ; A. M. Cheung…
• 关键词：Age dependent intervention threshold ; Fixed intervention threshold ; FRAX ; Guidelines ; Osteoporosis
• 刊名：Osteoporosis International
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：28
• 期：1
• 页码：127-137
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Orthopedics; Endocrinology; Rheumatology;
• 出版者：Springer London
• ISSN：1433-2965
• 卷排序：28

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SummaryWe describe our approach to develop FRAX-based osteoporosis treatment guidelines in Lebanon, a country with low-moderate fracture rates. A hybrid assessment algorithm that combines a fixed 10 % intervention threshold until age 70 years, and an age-dependent threshold thereafter, was deemed most suitable.