A new hip fracture risk index derived from FEA-computed proximal femur fracture loads and energies-to-failure.

Xuewei CaoJoyce H KeyakSigurdur SigurdssonChen ZhaoWeihua ZhouAnqi LiuThomas F LangHong-Wen DengVilmundur GudnasonQiuying Sha

Published in: Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA (2024)

The global FEA-computed fracture risk index increased hip fracture risk prediction accuracy in males.

Keyphrases

hip fracture
magnetic resonance imaging
computed tomography
density functional theory
body composition
molecular dynamics