The need for treatment of osteoporosis for people who are younger than 65 or have been treated for a single broken bone has been underestimated by World Health Organization's tool. A WHO task force developed the Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) to help predict the likelihood of adults between the ages of 40 and 90 breaking a bone. FRAX is designed to evaluate the chances that a person will break a bone in a minor fall, which is called a fragility fracture. Such ...
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