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.

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1. The observation that older men suffer from hip fracture at DXA T-scores higher than older women and a proposal of a new low BMD category, osteofrailia, for predicting fracture risk in older men.Skeletal radiology · 2025
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2. Lumbar spine DXA T-score and QCT BMD cutpoint values for defining osteofrailia among older men: a framework for further refinement.Skeletal radiology · 2026
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3. Relevance of vertebral fractural deformity for hip fracture prediction: a community-based study of older Chinese women and men.Skeletal radiology · 2026
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4. Considerations on the lumbar spine bone mineral density cutpoint values for defining osteofrailia among older Chinese men.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025
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5. Majority of hip fragility fractures among older people can be predicted by a DXA examination: an updated analysis of literature results and empirical Chinese data with a focus on the validation of the newly proposed osteofrailia criterion for men.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025
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6. For older women, the majority of hip fragility fractures and radiographic vertebral fragility fractures occur among the densitometrically osteoporotic population: a literature analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024
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7. 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 · 2024
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8. East Asians' T-scores for the diagnosis of osteoporosis should be calculated using ethnicity- and gender-specific BMD reference ranges: justifications.Skeletal radiology · 2024
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9. 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 · 2024
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10. 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 · 2023
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11. Conversion of osteoporotic-like vertebral fracture severity score to osteoporosis T-score equivalent status: A framework study for older Chinese men.Osteoporosis and sarcopenia · 2023
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