Journal of Clinical Densitometry
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 171-180 , July 2011

Joint Official Positions of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry and International Osteoporosis Foundation on FRAX® Executive Summary of the 2010 Position Development Conference on Interpretation and Use of FRAX® in Clinical Practice

  • Didier B. Hans

      Affiliations

    • Department of Bone & Joint, Center of Bone Diseases, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Didier B. Hans, Ph.D, MBA, Department of Bone & Joint, Center of Bone Diseases, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne 1011, Switzerland.
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  • John A. Kanis

      Affiliations

    • WHO Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
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  • Sanford Baim

      Affiliations

    • Division of Endocrinology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, United States of America
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  • John P. Bilezikian

      Affiliations

    • Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America
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  • Neil Binkley

      Affiliations

    • Osteoporosis Clinical Research Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States of America
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  • Jane A. Cauley

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America
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  • Juliet E. Compston

      Affiliations

    • University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  • Cyrus Cooper

      Affiliations

    • MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, and NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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  • Bess Dawson-Hughes

      Affiliations

    • Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States of America
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  • Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan

      Affiliations

    • WHO Collaborating Center for Metabolic Bone Disorders, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
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  • William D. Leslie

      Affiliations

    • University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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  • E. Michael Lewiecki

      Affiliations

    • New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
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  • Marjorie M. Luckey

      Affiliations

    • St. Barnabas Osteoporosis & Metabolic Bone Disease Center, Livingston, NJ, United States of America
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  • Eugene V. McCloskey

      Affiliations

    • NIHR Bone Biomedical Research Unit, Centre for Biomedical Research, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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  • Socrates E. Papapoulos

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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  • Catalina Poiana

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrinology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
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  • René Rizzoli

      Affiliations

    • Division of Bone Diseases, Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
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  • FRAX® Position Development Conference Members

      Affiliations

    • Task Force of the FRAX® Initiative: see “Appendix.”

Received 21 May 2011 ,Accepted 21 May 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jocd.2011.05.007

Journal of Clinical Densitometry
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 171-180 , July 2011

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