SynthesisJournal of bone and mineral metabolism2018
Abdominal aortic calcification and the risk of bone fractures: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.
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- Diabetes and Abdominal Aortic Calcification-a Systematic Review.Current osteoporosis reports · 2018Pooled it
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- Systematic evaluation of abdominal aortic calcification in patients with a recent clinical fracture visiting the Fracture Liaison Service.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025Article
- A Novel Quantitative Computer-Assisted Score Can Improve Repeatability in the Estimate of Vascular Calcifications at the Abdominal Aorta.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Joint Associations of Prevalent Radiographic Vertebral Fracture and Abdominal Aortic Calcification With Incident Hip, Major Osteoporotic, and Clinical Vertebral Fractures.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2021Article
- Brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity is associated with the risk of osteoporosis: a cross-sectional evidence from a Chinese community-based cohort.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2021Article
- Ascending Aortic Calcification as a Potential Predictor for Low Bone Mineral Density: A Pilot Study.Journal of osteoporosis · 2021Review
- Abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) and ankle-brachial index (ABI) predict health care costs and utilization in older men, independent of prevalent clinical cardiovascular disease and each other.Atherosclerosis · 2020Observational
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- The association between CD31Journal of bone and mineral metabolism · 2019Article
- Abdominal aortic calcification, bone mineral density and fractures: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Clinical advantages and disadvantages of anabolic bone therapies targeting the WNT pathway.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2018Review
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Abstract
The relationship between abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) and bone fracture has been examined by some observational studies, but the results remain discordant. Therefore, we aimed to assess the link between them by conducting a meta-analysis of prospective studies. Relevant studies were identified by searching PubMed and EMBASE databases until the end of December 2016. Summary relative risks (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for associations between AAC and fracture risk were estimated with fixed- or random- effects models. Seven prospective studies were included in the final analysis. The summarized RRs of any type of fractures for the highest compared with the lowest category of AAC were 1.64 (95% CI 1.30-2.07, P = 0.000) with mild heterogeneity (I
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