FRAX^®* 10-year Fracture Risk Assessment

Identify patients who otherwise would go untreated

Now you can identify and proactively treat patients with a high risk of fracture due to low bone density and other risk factors. We are excited to be the first to make the FRAX 10-year fracture risk calculator commercially available through our Discovery osteoporosis risk evaluation tools.

The FRAX calculator will help you to identify patients who are at high risk of experiencing fractures within a period of 10 years, by combining eleven of the highest risk factors, including age, personal history of fractures, and family history of fractures, plus country-specific life expectancy and country-specific fracture data. The FRAX calculator identifies patients who are at high risk of fracture but would not be candidates for preventative therapy using the traditional T-score of -2.5.

By incorporating the FRAX calculator into our Discovery bone densitometer systems, we will help dramatically alter and improve the way patients are evaluated and treated for potential bone fractures and will maintain our on-going commitment to provide the most up-to-date technology combating osteoporosis.

We continue to provide exceptional tools to identify patients at risk for costly fractures. Our mission is to greatly reduce the medical, emotional and economic burden that osteoporosis places on this country, and the world.

*FRAX is a trademark of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, located at the University Of Sheffield Medical School, UK