ReviewQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2022
'Healthier Chinese spine': an update of osteoporotic fractures in men (MrOS) and in women (MsOS) Hong Kong spine radiograph studies.
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- The relation of osteoporotic vertebral fractures and spine degeneration on the occurrence of complications: a systematic review.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024Pooled it
- Quantitative CT lumbar spine BMD cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis among older Chinese men can be the same as that of older Chinese women, both much lower than the value for Caucasians.Skeletal radiology · 2025Review
- Lower osteoporotic-like vertebral fractural deformity (OLVF) prevalence and severity among older Thais and Indonesians than among older Chinese.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Fewer spine degenerations among Southeast Asians than among Southern Chinese suggests populations from a warmer climate have inherently better spine health.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Quantitative CT lumbar spine BMD cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis among older East Asian women should be lower than the value for Caucasians.Skeletal radiology · 2024Article
- More evidence to support a lower quantitative computed tomography (QCT) lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis among older East Asian women than for Caucasians.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Revision of the 1994 World Health Organization T-score definition of osteoporosis for use in older East Asian women and men to reconcile it with their lifetime risk of fragility fracture.Skeletal radiology · 2024Review
- Much lower prevalence and severity of spine degenerative changes among older Chinese women than among older Caucasian women and its implication for the interpretation of lumbar spine BMD T-score for Chinese women.Skeletal radiology · 2024Article
- Generalizability of Deep Learning Classification of Spinal Osteoporotic Compression Fractures on Radiographs Using an Adaptation of the Modified-2 Algorithm-Based Qualitative Criteria.Academic radiology · 2023Article
- Conversion of measured bone mineral density T-scores of Chinese women to equivalent Caucasian women's T-score values.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- The role of genetic and epigenetic factors in determining the risk of spinal fragility fractures: new insights in the management of spinal osteoporosis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Review
- A comparison of radiographic degeneration features of older Chinese women and older Italian Caucasian women with a focus on thoracic spine.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2023Article
- Weak correlation between osteoporotic-like vertebral fracture severity and densitometric T-scores in older Chinese men.Annals of translational medicine · 2023Article
- Around the time of a hip fracture, older East Asian female patients tend to measure lower densitometric femoral neck and total hip T-scores than older Caucasian female patients: a literature analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Conversion of osteoporotic-like vertebral fracture severity score to osteoporosis T-score equivalent status: A framework study for older Chinese men.Osteoporosis and sarcopenia · 2023Article
- A summary of our recent evidence-based works on radiographic diagnostics of prevalent osteoporotic vertebral fracture in older men and women.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Schmorl's nodes are associated with prevalent osteoporotic vertebral fracture and low bone mineral density: a population-based thoracic spine MRI study in older men and women.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Conversion of osteoporotic vertebral fracture severity score to osteoporosis T-score equivalent status: a framework and a comparative study of Hong Kong Chinese and Rome Caucasian older women.Archives of osteoporosis · 2022Article
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- The definition of spine bone mineral density (BMD)-classified osteoporosis and the much inflated prevalence of spine osteoporosis in older Chinese women when using the conventional cutpoint T-score of -2.5.Annals of translational medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
For the MrOS (Hong Kong) and MsOS (Hong Kong) baseline (BL) studies, community-dwelling 2,000 Chinese men (mean age: 72.3 years) and 2,000 Chinese women (mean age: 72.5 years) were recruited from 2001 to 2003. These two studies have spanned two decades till now. This review summarizes our spine radiograph results. Senile and post-menopausal osteoporosis were associated with intervertebral disc volume reduction; and in women, menopause accelerates disc degeneration. Elderly women's osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) prevalence was double of that of elderly men. For year-4 follow-up (FU), male participants with BL OVF had little increased risk for further OVF. In our study comparing OVF rates in age-matched Hong Kong Chinese women and Italian Caucasian women (mean age: 74.1 years), endplate and/or cortex fracture (ECF) prevalence was 26% for Chinese and 47% for Italian. OVF with ≥40% vertebral height loss was recorded among 9.5% of the Chinese subjects while among 26% of the Italian subjects. OVFs in Italian subjects were more likely to be multiple and generally severer. Clinical spine fractures were recorded 133 cases/100,000 person-years in MrOS (Hong Kong) participants and 273 cases/100,000 person-years in MsOS (Hong Kong) participants. Literature review suggests the clinical vertebral fracture rates among elderly Hong Kong Chinese subjects are approximately half of those of American, Australian, and Canadian subjects. Data synthesis suggests elderly Caucasians have a higher degenerative spondylolisthesis prevalence, being approximately 70% higher than that of elderly Hong Kong Chinese. Literature review of other authors' publications shows, compared with Caucasians, Chinese have a much lower incident rate of back pain. We conclude that elderly Chinese have a generally healthier spine relative to elderly Caucasians.
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