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A service development study of the assessment and management of fracture risk in Parkinson's disease

Shribman, S; Torsney, KM; Noyce, AJ; Giovannoni, G; Fearnley, J; Dobson, R; (2014) A service development study of the assessment and management of fracture risk in Parkinson's disease. J Neurol , 261 (6) pp. 1153-1159. 10.1007/s00415-014-7333-8. Green open access

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Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with an increased risk of fragility fracture. FRAX and Qfracture are risk calculators that estimate the 10-year risk of hip and major fractures and guide definitive investigation for osteoporosis using dual X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) imaging. It is unclear which PD patients should be considered for fracture risk assessment and whether FRAX or Qfracture should be used. Seventy-seven patients with PD were recruited in the movement disorders clinic. Data were collected on PD-related characteristics and fracture risk scores were calculated. Patients with previous osteoporotic fractures had a higher incidence of falls (p = 0.0026) and use of bilateral walking aids (p = 0.0187) in addition to longer disease duration (p = 0.0037). Selecting patients with falls in combination with either disease duration >5 years, bilateral walking aids, or previous osteoporotic fracture distinguished patients with and without previous osteoporotic fracture with specificity 67.7 % (95 % CI 55.0-78.8) and sensitivity 100.0 % (95 % CI 73.5-100.0). Qfracture calculated significantly higher fracture risk scores than FRAX for hip (p < 0.0001) and major (p = 0.0008) fracture in PD patients. Receiver operating characteristic curves demonstrated that FRAX outperformed Qfracture with an area under the curve of 0.84 (95 % CI 0.70-0.97, p = 0.0004) for FRAX and 0.68 (95 % CI 52-86, p = 0.0476) for Qfracture major fracture risk calculators. We suggest that falls in combination with either a disease duration longer than 5 years or bilateral walking aids or previous osteoporotic fracture should be used as red flags in PD patients to prompt clinicians to perform a FRAX fracture risk assessment in the neurology clinic.

Type: Article
Title: A service development study of the assessment and management of fracture risk in Parkinson's disease
Location: Germany
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-014-7333-8
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00415-014-7333-8
Additional information: This article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) as indicated via the Publisher Version link above.
Keywords: Absorptiometry, Photon, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Disease Management, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Osteoporotic Fractures, Parkinson Disease, Questionnaires, ROC Curve, Risk Assessment, Time Factors, Walking
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1436906
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