The Evaluation of OSTA on Screening of Osteoporosis in Post-menopausal Women in Mainland China
- VernacularTitle:亚洲妇女骨质疏松自我评价工具应用于我国大陆地区绝经后妇女骨质疏松的筛检效果评价
- Author:
Jun CHEN
;
Dingzhuo YANG
;
Juying ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Osteoporosis;
Osteoporosis Self-assessment Tool for Asians (OSTA);
Screening test;
Validity;
Reliability;
Evaluation
- From:
Chinese Journal of Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases
2006;0(02):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To evaluate the screening effect of OSTA in Chinese post-menopausal women, to provide suggestions for the further development of OP screening in mainland China. Methods With the data from Chinese Database of Bone Mineral Density of Chinese women aged 50 years old and above, each subject was calculated a OSTA score by the formula of OSTA and classified into three risk levels (the normal, the osteopenia and the osteoporosis) or two groups (the low and the high risk) by the original cutoffs, and compared with results by T-score. A series of screening indexes, such as sensitivity, specificity, kappa value and ROC etc., were employed to compare and analyze the diagnosis results of OSTA with T-score from the femoral neck bone density. Results According to the 3 levels by original cutoffs, the Kappa value was 0.357 (P
