Bone Abstracts

Introduction: Osteoporosis-related fractures can cause substantial disability and increase health care costs, and mortality. There are many difficulties to access Greek women residing in remote villages and perform the FRAX tool for osteoporosis evaluation, especially, after the global economy crisis.Purpose: To estimate the prevalence of FRAX clinical risk factors, calcium intake habits and perform osteoporosis screening in 275 postmenopausal Greek wome...

Introduction: The FRAX tool can be used to assess absolute fracture risk, but the majority of treatment decisions are still based on measurements by DEXA. In remote rural Greek areas, after the socioeconomy crisis, access to the nearest DEXA facility became more difficult.Purpose: Role of combined QUS and FRAX in the identification of low risk patients who do not require DEXA applying a FRAX threshold of 4% for the 10-year major osteoporotic fracture pro...