METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF OSTEOPOROTIC SPINAL FRACTURES IN FEMALES AGED 50 AND OLDER

摘要

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. ^ 2 tbl, 3 ex