Are other feasible options available for screening of risk assessment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women at community level in Southern Coastal India

Authors

  • Gowry Reddy MBBS Student, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
  • Priya Rathi Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, MAHE, Karnataka, India
  • Unnikrishnan B. Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, MAHE, Karnataka, India
  • Surendra Kamath Department of Orthopaedics, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, MAHE, Karnataka, India
  • Kalpita Shringapure Tutor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Medical College Baroda, Gujarat, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20185142

Keywords:

Osteoporosis, Screening tools, Bone densitometry, Postmenopausal women

Abstract

Background: Osteoporosis is a chronic debilitating condition which exhibits iceberg phenomenon. Identification at an early stage of disease will enable preventive measures to reduce the incidence of disease and complications. Owing to the cost of diagnostic test, this study, various screening tools such as WHO fracture risk assessment tool, osteoporosis self-assessment tool for Asians, simple calculated osteoporosis risk estimation and osteoporosis risk assessment instrument   have been used for assessment, in order to screen postmenopausal women in the preliminary stages.

Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 107 postmenopausal women carried over a period of five months.

Results: Prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia was 24.3% and 69.2%. The area under the curve for osteoporosis self-assessment tool for Asians (OSTA), simple calculated osteoporotic risk estimation (SCORE) and osteoporotic risk assessment instrument (ORAI) was 0.731, 0.407 and 0.172 respectively. OSTA proved to be effective in differentiating normal BMD from low BMD score (i.e., osteopenia and osteoporosis) with a cut off of 1.1, SCORE to be more effective in screening osteoporosis than the other tools because it had a higher positive probability with a cut off 22.  FRAX tool predicted probability of five and three percent probability of major fracture and hip fracture risk in ten years

Conclusions: Various tools assessed in the studies can be utilized at community level for identifying high risk women in post-menopausal stage but with different cut offs. This will reduce the cost of screening and also facilitate non pharmacological measures to reduce the progression of disease.

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2018-12-24

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Reddy, G., Rathi, P., B., U., Kamath, S., & Shringapure, K. (2018). Are other feasible options available for screening of risk assessment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women at community level in Southern Coastal India. International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 6(1), 123–128. https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20185142

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