posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00authored bySharon Brennan-Olsen, W Leslie, L Lix, H Johansson, A Oden, E McCloskey, J Kanis
The authors investigated the fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) Canada calibration and discrimination according to income quintile in 51,327 Canadian women, with and without a competing mortality framework. The data shows that, under a competing mortality framework, FRAX provides robust fracture prediction and calibration regardless of socioeconomic status (SES).