Comparison of femur stiffness measured from DXA and QCT for assessment of hip fracture risk

• Published in: Journal of bone and mineral metabolism Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 342 - 350
• Main Authors: Luo, Yunhua, Yang, Huijuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo Springer Japan 01.03.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Absorptiometry, Photon; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Area Under Curve; Biomechanical Phenomena; Bone Density; Bone strength; Case-Control Studies; Computed tomography; Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry; Female; Femur; Femur - diagnostic imaging; Femur - physiopathology; Fractures; Hip; Hip Fractures - diagnostic imaging; Hip Fractures - epidemiology; Hip joint; Humans; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Middle Aged; Odds Ratio; Original Article; Orthopedics; Risk Factors; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; X-rays; Hip fracture risk; Femur axial and bending stiffness; Computed tomography X-ray absorptiometry (CTXA); Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA); Cross-sectional moment of inertia (CSMI)

Femur stiffness, for example axial and bending stiffness, integrates both geometric and material information of the bone, and thus can be an effective indicator of bone strength and hip fracture risk. Femur stiffness is ideally measured from quantitative computed tomography (QCT), but QCT is not rec...