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The International Osteoporosis Foundation and the National Osteoporosis Foundation have recommended that risk of fracture be expressed as a fixed-term absolute risk, for example the probability in percent over a 10-year period. This figure shows other BMD-independent risk factors for fracture that the IOF and NOF have integrated to establish absolute risk of fracture in men and women.
