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ArticleOsteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA2016

A BMD threshold for treatment efficacy in osteoporosis? A need to consider the whole evidence base.

E McCloskey

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Article in Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Barriers and solutions for global access to osteoporosis management: a Position Paper from the International Osteoporosis Foundation.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025
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  8. Review of the guideline of the American College of Physicians on the treatment of osteoporosis.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2018
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  9. Management of Patients With High Baseline Hip Fracture Risk by FRAX Reduces Hip Fractures-A Post Hoc Analysis of the SCOOP Study.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2018
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  11. Postmenopausal Osteoporosis.The New England journal of medicine · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

E McCloskeyAcademic Unit of Bone Metabolism, Department of Oncology and Metabolism Metabolic Bone Centre, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield, S5 7AU, UK. e.v.mccloskey@sheffield.ac.uk.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K006312/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Inappropriate PrescribingHip FracturesHumansOsteoporosis

Identifiers

PMID26564227

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