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ReviewCurrent osteoporosis reports2017

Clinical Evaluation of Bone Strength and Fracture Risk.

Chantal M J de Bakker, Wei-Ju Tseng, Yihan Li, Hongbo Zhao, X Sherry Liu

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Review in Current osteoporosis reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. In vivo mechanical assessment of cortical bone rigidity enhances fracture discrimination beyond DXA in postmenopausal women.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2026
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  10. Bone mineral density, turnover, and microarchitecture assessed by second-generation high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography in patients with Sheehan's syndrome.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2024
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  16. Bone Microarchitecture and Strength in Long-Standing Type 1 Diabetes.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chantal M J de BakkerMcKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 426C Stemmler Hall, 36th Street and Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Wei-Ju TsengMcKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 426C Stemmler Hall, 36th Street and Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Yihan LiMcKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 426C Stemmler Hall, 36th Street and Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Hongbo ZhaoMcKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 426C Stemmler Hall, 36th Street and Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
X Sherry LiuMcKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 426C Stemmler Hall, 36th Street and Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. xiaoweil@mail.med.upenn.edu.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis paper seeks to evaluate and compare recent advances in the clinical assessment of the changes in bone mechanical properties that take place as a result of osteoporosis and other metabolic bone diseases and their treatments. RECENT

findingsIn addition to the standard of DXA-based areal bone mineral density (aBMD), a variety of methods, including imaging-based structural measurements, finite element analysis (FEA)-based techniques, and alternate methods including ultrasound, bone biopsy, reference point indentation, and statistical shape and density modeling, have been developed which allow for reliable prediction of bone strength and fracture risk. These methods have also shown promise in the evaluation of treatment-induced changes in bone mechanical properties. Continued technological advances allowing for increasingly high-resolution imaging with low radiation dose, together with the expanding adoption of DXA-based predictions of bone structure and mechanics, as well as the increasing awareness of the importance of bone material properties in determining whole-bone mechanics, lead us to anticipate substantial future advances in this field.

Indexed as

Bone DensityAbsorptiometry, PhotonBiopsyBone and BonesFinite Element AnalysisFractures, BoneHumansOsteoporosisUltrasonographyBone material propertiesBone microstructureBone strengthClinical imagingFinite element analysisFractureOsteoporosis

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PMID28185216
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