METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF OSTEOPOROTIC SPINAL FRACTURES IN FEMALES AGED 50 AND OLDER Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61B10/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to therapy and rheumatology. Risk factors are determined: weight less than 60 kg; height more than 160 cm; body weight index less than 25 kg/m²; physically demanding job before the age of 25; physically demanding job after the age of 50; surgical menopause before the age of 50; singleness; bone mineral density (BMD): hip BMD less than 0.800 g/cm²; spinal BMD less than 0.900 g/cm². The detected risk factors are graded, evaluated and used to derive prognostic coefficients F₁ and F₂ by formulas to be compared. If F₁ is more than F₂, a high risk is predicted, while the value F₁ less than F₂ shows a low risk of developing osteoporotic spinal fractures in females of 50 and older for the following 2-year period.

EFFECT: method enables evaluating a risk of developing low-energy spinal fractures thereby providing higher effectiveness and purpose of preventive and therapeutic measures in groups of patients with a high risk of potential fractures.

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