Ten-Year Absolute Risk of Osteoporotic Fractures According to BMD T Score at Menopause: The Danish Osteoporosis Prevention Study

Abstract

In healthy women, examined in the first year or two after menopause, 10-year fracture risk was higher at each level of BMD T score than expected from the model by Kanis et al. Inclusion of HRT users in the cohorts used may have led to higher BMD values and lower absolute fracture risk in the Kanis model. These longitudinal data can be used directly in estimating absolute fracture risk in untreated north European women from BMD at menopause.