Figure 1.

Assessment of basal 10-year risk of fracture with the 2010 tool of the Canadian Association of Radiologists and Osteoporosis Canada. The T-score for the femoral neck should be derived from the National Health and Nutrition Education Survey III reference database for white women. Fragility fracture after age 40 or recent prolonged use of systemic glucocorticoids increases the basal risk by one category (i.e., from low to moderate or moderate to high). This model reflects the theoretical risk for a hypothetical patient who is treatment-naive; it cannot be used to determine risk reduction associated with therapy. Individuals with a fragility fracture of a vertebra or hip and those with more than one fragility fracture are at high risk of an additional fracture.