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NOF’s New Clinician’s Guide to
Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis
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The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) has released its new Clinician’s Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis to help U.S. healthcare providers make better treatment decisions and assess fracture risk for patients with low bone mass or osteoporosis. The new information in the Guide is based largely on a report (also being released) from the World Health Organization (WHO) detailing the WHO algorithm (FRAX™). This algorithm estimates the likelihood for a person to break a hip or other major bone due to low bone mass or osteoporosis over a period of 10 years.
NOF’s new Guide dramatically alters the way patients—both men and women—are evaluated and treated, and better identifies those at risk for fractures from low bone mass or osteoporosis. The Guide represents a major breakthrough utilizing Absolute Fracture Risk methodology as the basis for making treatment decisions in patients with low bone mass or osteoporosis.
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Clinician’s Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis:
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