Fracture risk assessment tool(FRAX) for osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment

Fracture risk assessment tool(FRAX) has been used as a conventional means for diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis instead of bone mineral density values in more and more countries.Here it was introduced definition of FRAX,the use of FRAX,differences of racial,intervention threshold settings and the evaluation of treatment effect,the impact on the predicted results and the difference between FRAX and other tools.The IOF official documents and merits were list in this paper.OCGGS suggests using FRAX for accurately study of osteoporosis instead of detection of BMD simply.