The impact of methods for estimating bone health and the global burden of bone disease.
The impact of methods for estimating bone health and the global burden of bone disease.
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评估骨骼健康方法的影响和骨骼疾病的全球负担。
DOI:
10.1590/s0036-36342009000700007
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
C. Cooper
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文献类型:
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作者:
Z. Cole;E. Dennison;C. Cooper
Osteoporosis constitutes a major public health problem through its association with age related fractures. Fracture rates are generally higher in caucasian women than in other populations. Important determinants include estrogen deficiency in women, low body mass index, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, poor dietary calcium intake, physical inactivity, certain drugs and illnesses. Thus, modification of physical activity and dietary calcium/vitamin D nutrition should complement high risk approaches. In addition, the recently developed WHO algorithm for evaluation of 10-year absolute risk of fracture provides a means whereby various therapies can be targeted cost-effectively to those at risk. Risk factors, together with bone mineral density (BMD) and biochemical indices of bone turnover, can be utilised to derive absolute risks of fracture and cost-utility thresholds at which treatment is justified. These data will provide the basis for translation into coherent public health strategies aiming to prevent osteoporosis both in individuals and in the general population.