Fine-tuning the cutpoint T-score as an epidemiological index with high specificity for osteoporosis: methodological considerations for the Chinese population

摘要: © Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. All rights reserved. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2022; 12 (2): 882-885| https://dx. doi. org/10.21037/qims-21-845 reported the fracture ratio relative to Caucasians being 0.30 for Chinese women and 0.42 for Chinese men. Using the Canadian population-based Manitoba BMD Program registry data, Leslie et al.(6) reported that, at baseline ‘prior fracture’was recorded in 20.1% of Caucasian women (mean age: 64.7 years) and 11.7% of Asian women (mostly Chinese and Filipino, mean age: 62.8 years). During followup (8.8±5.1 years for Caucasians and 6.5±5.0 years for Asians), the incident hip fracture rate per 1,000 personyears was 3.6 for Caucasians and 0.6 for Asians. According to the New York State inpatient hip fracture data from 1988 to 2002, Fang et al.(7) reported that the annual ageadjusted hip fracture incidence rate per 100,000 was 459 and 230 in Caucasian …