Clinical risk factors | Age (40–90 yr) | Age (> 50 yr) |
Sex | Sex |
Weight | |
Height | |
Previous fracture in adulthood | Fractures since age 40 |
Parent fractured hip | |
Current smoking | |
Glucocorticoid use‡ | Glucocorticoid use§ |
Rheumatoid arthritis | |
Secondary osteoporosis | |
Consumes ≥ 3 units alcohol per day | |
Bone mineral density | Femoral neck BMD optional | Femoral neck BMD required¶ |
Other considerations | Incorporates competing risk of mortality | No competing risk of mortality |
Different algorithms can be used for different | No different algorithms for different ethnicities |
ethnicities and countries | |
Involves interactions between variables | No interactions between individual variables |
Type of fractures predicted | Hip fracture within 10 years | |
Major osteoporotic fracture within 10 years | Osteoporotic fracture within 10 years |