Affiliations 

  • 1 Osteoporosis Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  • 2 Metabolic Disorders Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular Cellular Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  • 3 School of public health, department of epidemiology and biostatistics, Tehran university of medical science, Tehran, Iran
  • 4 The Persian Gulf Marine Biotechnology Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
  • 5 Chronic Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  • 6 Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
J Diabetes Metab Disord, 2022 Dec;21(2):1609-1617.
PMID: 36404865 DOI: 10.1007/s40200-022-01110-3

Abstract

PURPOSE: This study aimed to evaluate the performance of valid risk assessment models developed for osteoporosis/ fracture screening to identify women in need of bone density measurement in a population of Iranian elderly women.

METHODS: This study was performed using the data of Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) program, a population-based cohort study of elderly population aged ≥ 60 years. Seven osteoporosis risk assessment tools, including Osteoporosis Risk Assessment Instrument (ORAI), Malaysian Osteoporosis Screening Tool (MOST), Osteoporosis Prescreening Risk Assessment (OPERA), Osteoporosis Prescreening Model for Iranian Postmenopausal women (OPMIP), Osteoporosis Index of Risk (OSIRIS), and Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool for Asians (OSTA), as well as Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) were included in the study. By using osteoporosis definition based on BMD results, the performance measurement criteria of diagnostic tests such as sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and Youden index for each model were calculated and the models were compared.

RESULTS: A total of 1237 female participants with the mean age of 69.1 ± 6.3 years were included. Overall, 733 (59%) participants had osteoporosis, and about 80% had no history of fracture. The sensitivity of the seven models ranged from 16.7% (OSIRIS) to 100% (ORAI and MOST) at their recommended cut-off points. Moreover,their specificity ranged from 0.0% (ORAI and MOST) to 78.9% (OSTA). The FRAX and OPERA had the optimal performance with the Youden index of 0.237 and 0.226, respectively. Moreover, after combining these models, the sensitivity of them increased to 85.4%.

CONCLUSION: We found that the FRAX (model with 11 simple variables) and OPERA (model with 5 simple variables) had the best performance. By combining the models, the performance of each was improved. Further studies are needed to adopt the model and to find the best cut-off point in the Iranian postmenopausal women.

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