The need to distinguish intervention thresholds and diagnostic thresholds in the management of osteoporosis

Affiliations

• ¹ Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield Medical School, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK. [email protected].
• ² Mary McKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. [email protected].
• ³ Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield Medical School, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK.
• ⁴ Centre for Integrated Research in Musculoskeletal Ageing (CIMA), Mellanby Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
• ⁵ MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.
• ⁶ NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton, UK.
• ⁷ NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ⁸ Service of Bone Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland.
• ⁹ Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center On Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Neuroscience, Aging Branch, CNR, Padua, Italy.
• ¹¹ WHO Collaborating Center for Epidemiology of Musculoskeletal Health and Aging, Liege, Belgium.
• ¹² Division of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University of Liège, CHU Sart Tilman B23, 4000, Liege, Belgium.