Prediction of incident vertebral fracture using CT-based finite element analysis.
B T AllaireD LuF JohannesdottirD KopperdahlT M KeavenyM JarrayaA GuermaziM A BredellaE J SamelsonD P KielD E AndersonS DemissieM L BouxseinPublished in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2018)
This study shows an association between vertebral strength measures and incident vertebral fracture in men and women. Though limited by a small sample size, our findings also suggest that bone strength estimates by CT-based FEA provide equivalent or better ability to predict incident vertebral fracture compared to CT-based aBMD. Our study confirms that CT-based estimates of vertebral strength from FEA are useful for identifying patients who are at high risk for vertebral fracture.