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Título: Discriminative ability of heel quantitative ultrasound in postmenopausal women with prevalent vertebral fractures: application of optimal threshold cutoff values using classification and regression tree models
Autores/as: Del Carmen Navarro, María
Saavedra Santana, Pedro 
Gómez-de-Tejada, María Jesús
Suárez, Mercedes
Hernández, Diego
Sosa-Henríquez, Manuel 
Palabras clave: Bone-Mineral Density
X-Ray Absorptiometry
Population-Based Sample
Hip Fracture
Older Women, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2012
Editor/a: 0171-967X
Publicación seriada: Calcified Tissue International 
Resumen: Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) of the heel has been proposed as a screening tool to evaluate the bone status and risk of osteoporotic fragility fractures. The aim of this study was to define threshold values that would maximize the predictive ability of QUS to discriminate subjects with vertebral fractures using the classification and regression trees (CART) models. A cross-sectional analysis was made of a cohort of 1,132 postmenopausal women with a mean age of 58 years. A total of 205 women (18.1 %) presented with a history of vertebral fracture. For all patients, a questionnaire of osteoporosis risk factors was given and measurements of the heel QUS and bone mineral density at the lumbar spine and the proximal femur, obtained by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), were made. Spinal radiographs were assessed for vertebral fractures. Sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratios, and receiver operator characteristics (ROC) curve QUS values were calculated using the optimal threshold identified in the CART models. Cutoff values calculated from best CART model (i.e., a QUS index > 90.5 %) yielded a sensitivity of 80.3 % (95 % CI 69.2-88.1), a negative predictive value of 94 % (95 % CI 90.1-96.5), and a specificity of 68.8 % (95 % CI 63.3-73.8). This cutoff value would obviate the need to perform DXA in 32.8 % of the women of our population at risk for vertebral fractures. The area under the ROC curve of the best model was 0.8071. QUS was shown to discriminate between women with and without a history of vertebral fracture and constitutes a useful tool for assessing vertebral fracture risk. The application of decision trees (CART analyses) was helpful to define the optimal threshold QUS values.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/50720
ISSN: 0171-967X
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-012-9616-3
Fuente: Calcified Tissue International[ISSN 0171-967X],v. 91, p. 114-120
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