Incidence of Vertebral Fracture in Europe: Results From the European Prospective Osteoporosis Study (EPOS)

By D. Felsenberg, A. Silman, M. Lunt, G. Armbrecht, A. Ismail, J. Finn, W. Cockerill, D. Banzer, L. Benevolenskaya, A. Bhalla and 34 more. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 2002

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Subfields: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Osteoporosis in the European Union: medical management, epidemiology and economic burden (2013, background): “The vast majority of osteoporotic fractures occur in elderly women [44].”
• Body mass index as a predictor of fracture risk: A meta-analysis (2005, methodology): “This sample provided the framework for the European Prospective Osteoporosis Study (EPOS), where repeated assessment was undertaken in 29 of the centers [22,23].”
• The decline of androgen levels in elderly men and its clinical and therapeutic implications. (2005, background): “Aging in men is associated with continuous loss of bone and an exponential increase of the incidence of fractures of the hip (268, 269) and the spine (270, 271).”
• Predictive Value of BMD for Hip and Other Fractures (2005, methodology): “The sample provided the frame-work for the European Prospective Osteoporosis study (EPOS) where repeated assessment was undertaken in 29 of the centers.((23,24))”
• Smoking and fracture risk: a meta-analysis (2005, methodology): “The sample provided the framework for the European Prospective Osteoporosis study (EPOS), in which repeated assessment was undertaken in 29 of the centers [20, 21].”
• A meta-analysis of previous fracture and subsequent fracture risk. (2004, neutral): “The European Vertebral Osteoporosis Study (EVOS) comprised age- and sex-stratified random samples from 36 centers in 19 European countries [41–43].”
• A Meta‐Analysis of Prior Corticosteroid Use and Fracture Risk (2004, methodology): “This sample provided the framework for the EPOS study (European Prospective Osteoporosis Study), where repeated assessment was undertaken in 29 of the centers.((20,21))”
• An estimate of the worldwide prevalence and disability associated with osteoporotic fractures (2006, background): “For long bone fractures, this assumption seems to be reasonable, at least in the Western world (see Methods), but it may not hold true for vertebral fractures [24, 25].”
• Epidemiology of osteoporotic fractures (2005, methodology): “In the EVOS study [18], it was found that 1% of women at the age of 65 years and 2.”