Abstract
Summary
We have developed clinical nomograms for predicting 5-year and 10-year fracture risks for any elderly man or woman. The nomograms used age and information concerning fracture history, fall history, and BMD T-score or body weight.
Introduction
Although many fracture risk factors have been identified, the translation of these risk factors into a prognostic model that can be used in primary care setting has not been well realized. The present study sought to develop a nomogram that incorporates non-invasive risk factors to predict 5-year and 10-year absolute fracture risks for an individual man and woman.
Methods
The Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study was designed as a community-based prospective study, with 1358 women and 858 men aged 60+ years as at 1989. Baseline measurements included femoral neck bone mineral density (FNBMD), prior fracture, a history of falls and body weight. Between 1989 and 2004, 426 women and 149 men had sustained a low-trauma fracture (not including morphometric vertebral fractures). Two prognostic models based on the Cox’s proportional hazards analysis were considered: model I included age, BMD, prior fracture and falls; and model II included age, weight, prior fracture and fall.
Results
Analysis of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) suggested that model I (AUC = 0.75 for both sexes) performed better than model II (AUC = 0.72 for women and 0.74 for men). Using the models’ estimates, we constructred various nomograms for individualizing the risk of fracture for men and women. If the 5-year risk of 10% or greater is considered “high risk”, then virtually all 80-year-old men with BMD T-scores <-1.0 or 80-year-old women with T-scores <-2.0 were predicted to be in the high risk group. A 60-year-old woman’s risk was considered high risk only if her BMD T-scores ≤-2.5 and with a prior fracture; however, no 60-year-old men would be in the high risk regardless of their BMD and risk profile.
Conclusion
These data suggest that the assessment of fracture risk for an individual cannot be based on BMD alone, since there are clearly various combinations of factors that could substantially elevate an individual’s risk of fracture. The nomograms presented here can be useful for individualizing the short- and intermediate-term risk of fracture and identifying high-risk individuals for intervention to reduce the burden of fracture in the general population.





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We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Janet Watters, Donna Reeves, Shaye Field and Jodie Ratleg for the interview, data collection and measurement bone mineral density. We also appreciate the invaluable help of the staff of Dubbo Base Hospital. We thank David Hayes and the IT group of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research for the management of the database.
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Dr. John Eisman serves as a consultant and receives corporate appointment from Amgen, deCode, Eli Lilly and Company, GE-Lunar, Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd., Novartis, Organon, Roche-GSK, sanofi-aventis and Servier. All other authors have no conflict of interest.
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Source of financial support: This works has been supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, and untied educational grants from GE-Lunar, Merck Australia, Eli Lilly International and sanofi-aventis Australia.
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Nguyen, N.D., Frost, S.A., Center, J.R. et al. Development of prognostic nomograms for individualizing 5-year and 10-year fracture risks. Osteoporos Int 19, 1431–1444 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-008-0588-0
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