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ArticleCalcified tissue international2025

Conflating the Operational Definition of Osteoporosis with Intervention Thresholds.

J A Kanis, H Johansson, M Lorentzon, N C Harvey, E V McCloskey

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Article in Calcified tissue international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Predictive value of BMD for hip and other fractures: a meta-analysis to update FRAX.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026
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  3. The association of bone density and hip fracture risk among Asian women.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025
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  4. Barriers and solutions for global access to osteoporosis management: a Position Paper from the International Osteoporosis Foundation.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

J A KanisCentre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. w.j.pontefract@sheffield.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3129-4326
H JohanssonSahlgrenska Osteoporosis Centre, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
M LorentzonSahlgrenska Osteoporosis Centre, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
N C HarveyMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
E V McCloskeyDivision of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health, Mellanby Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_21003Medical Research Council MC_UP_A620_1015Medical Research Council MC_UU_12011/2
6 · The paper itself

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