Journal
JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
Volume 24, Issue 7, Pages 1319-1325Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1359/JBMR.090212
Keywords
absolute risk; bone fractures; DXA; epidemiology; osteoporosis; quantitative ultrasound
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- Medical Research Council [G9321536]
- EU FP5 (ADOQ) [QLRT-200102363]
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food [Food (AN0523]
- Food Standards Agency [N05046]
- Cancer Research UK
- Stroke Association
- Research Into Ageing
- British Heart Foundation [RG/08/014/24067] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0401527, MC_U106179471] Funding Source: researchfish
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Although quantitative ultrasound (QUS) is known to be correlated with BMD and bone structure, its long-term predictive power for fractures in comparison with DXA is unclear. We examined this in a sample of men and women in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC)-Norfolk who had both heel QUS and hip DXA between 1995 and 1997. From 1455 participants (703 men) 65-76 yr of age at baseline, 79 developed a fracture over 10.3 +/- 1.4 yr of follow-up. In a sex-stratified Cox proportional-hazard model including age, height, body mass index, prier fracture, smoking, alcohol intake, and total hip BMD, a 1 SD decrease in BMD was associated with a hazard ratio (HR) for fracture of 2.26 (95%, Cl: 1.74-2.95). In the multivariable model with heel broadband ultrasound attenuation (BUA) in place of BMD, HR for a 1 SD decrease in BUA was 2.04 (95% Cl: 1.55-2.69). Global measures of model fit showed relative Superiority of the BMD model, whereas the area under the receiving operator characteristic (ROC) curve was slightly higher for the BUA model. Using both Cox models with BMD and BUA measures, we calculated exact 10-yr absolute risk of fracture for all participants and categorized them in groups of <5%, 5% to <15%, and >= 15%. Comparison of groupings based on two models showed a total reclassification of 28.8% of participants, with the greatest reclassification (similar to 40%) among the intermediate- and high-risk groups. This study shows that the power of QUS for prediction of fractures among the elderly is at least comparable to that of DXA. Given the feasibility and lower cost of ultrasound measurement in primary care, further studies to develop and validate models for prediction of 10-yr risk of fracture using clinical risk factors and QUS are recommended. J Bone Miner Res 2009;24:1319-1.325. Published online on February 16, 2009; doi: 10.1359/JBMR.090212
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