Erschienen in:
01.12.2022 | Letter to the Editor
Further evidence supports a much lower prevalence of radiographic osteoporotic vertebral fracture in Hong Kong Chinese women than in Italian Caucasian women
verfasst von:
Yì Xiáng J. Wáng, Davide Diacinti, Jason C. S. Leung, Antonio Iannacone, Endi Kripa, Timothy C. Y. Kwok, Daniele Diacinti
Erschienen in:
Archives of Osteoporosis
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Ausgabe 1/2022
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Excerpt
With spine radiographs from two epidemiological studies conducted in Hong Kong and in Rome (MsOS[Hong Kong] study and Roman Osteoporosis Prevention Project), we recently compared radiographic OVF (osteoporotic vertebral fracture) prevalence in age-matched elderly Chinese women and Italian Caucasian women (both
n = 200 cases and mean age = 74.1 years, data 1). Results showed a much lower prevalence and severity of radiographic OVF in Hong Kong subjects than in Italian subjects [
1]. Though these results are consistent with other findings such as, compared with Caucasians, Chinese have a much lower hip fragility fracture rate and a much lower clinical spine fragility fracture rate, and OVFs among Chinese progress slower [
2‐
4], there are still considerations that our radiographic OVF results were based on a single study with relatively small sample size [
1]. To partially address these concerns, we analyzed additional radiological evidence and present them in this letter. …