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ReviewCurrent osteoporosis reports2018

Fracture Prediction by Computed Tomography and Finite Element Analysis: Current and Future Perspectives.

Fjola Johannesdottir, Brett Allaire, Mary L Bouxsein

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Review in Current osteoporosis reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 51 papers, 4 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

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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

51 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Use of DXA-derived 3D-modeling, as implemented by 3D-Shaper, for the assessment of fracture risk in a population-based setting.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2026
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  20. Assessment of fracture risk in diabetic patients.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Fjola JohannesdottirCenter for Advanced Orthopedic Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, RN 120, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. fjohanne@bidmc.harvard.edu.
Brett AllaireCenter for Advanced Orthopedic Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, RN 120, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
Mary L BouxseinCenter for Advanced Orthopedic Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, RN 120, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.

Funding

Biomechanics of Vertebral Fracture: The Framingham QCT StudyR01AR053986 · NIAMS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI BOUXSEIN, MARY L · 2007 to 2016
$5.4M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR053986
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis review critiques the ability of CT-based methods to predict incident hip and vertebral fractures. RECENT

findingsCT-based techniques with concurrent calibration all show strong associations with incident hip and vertebral fracture, predicting hip and vertebral fractures as well as, and sometimes better than, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry areal biomass density (DXA aBMD). There is growing evidence for use of routine CT scans for bone health assessment. CT-based techniques provide a robust approach for osteoporosis diagnosis and fracture prediction. It remains to be seen if further technical advances will improve fracture prediction compared to DXA aBMD. Future work should include more standardization in CT analyses, establishment of treatment intervention thresholds, and more studies to determine whether routine CT scans can be efficiently used to expand the number of individuals who undergo evaluation for fracture risk.

Indexed as

Absorptiometry, PhotonBone DensityFinite Element AnalysisHip FracturesHumansIncidenceOsteoporosisOsteoporotic FracturesSpinal FracturesTomography, X-Ray ComputedComputational anatomyFinite element analysis (FEA)Hip fractureOpportunistic CTQuantitative computed tomography (QCT)Vertebral fracture

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