Existing severe osteoporotic vertebral fractures in elderly Chinese males were only weakly associated with higher further vertebral fracture risk at year-4 follow-up

Y X J Wáng¹, N Che-Nordin², J C S Leung³, T C Y Kwok^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China. yixiang_wang@cuhk.edu.hk.
² Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.
³ JC Centre for Osteoporosis Care and Control, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.
⁴ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Comment

Y X J Wáng et al. Osteoporos Int. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;31(8):1593-1594.

doi: 10.1007/s00198-020-05480-3. Epub 2020 Jun 9.

Y X J Wáng¹, N Che-Nordin², J C S Leung³, T C Y Kwok^{3

4}

¹ Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China. yixiang_wang@cuhk.edu.hk.
² Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.
³ JC Centre for Osteoporosis Care and Control, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.
⁴ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.

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Elderly males with or without existing osteoporotic vertebral fracture have much lower future vertebral fracture risk than elderly females: the MrOS (Hong Kong) year-4 follow-up spine radiograph study.
Wáng YXJ, Che-Nordin N, Deng M, Griffith JF, Leung JCS, Kwok AWL, Leung PC, Kwok TCY. Wáng YXJ, et al. Osteoporos Int. 2019 Dec;30(12):2505-2514. doi: 10.1007/s00198-019-05136-x. Epub 2019 Sep 2. Osteoporos Int. 2019. PMID: 31478068