FRAX and FRAXplus Update

We have recently launched a parallel website to bring the FRAX web platform into the modern era, usable across a wide range of devices. (www.fraxplus.org)

FRAXplus® contains the most up-to-date FRAX calculators, freely available.

Additional features include access to an individualised FRAX account for storage of FRAX calculations and a beta-version, fee-based access to modifications of the FRAX probability (e.g. recency of fracture or falls in the previous year).

Once the FRAXplus® website is available in all the FRAX languages, the old FRAX website (https://frax.shef.ac.uk/FRAX) will be retired.

Modelele de analiza FRAX^® au fost dezvoltate prin studii de cohorta din populatia Europei, Americii de Nord, Asiei si Australiei. In forma cea mai sofisticata, instrumentul FRAX^® este computerizat si este disponibil pe aceasta pagina. Sunt de asemenea disponibile versiuni simplificate (pe hartie), in functie de numarul factorilor de risc si pot fi descarcate pentru utilizare in practica clinica.

Algoritmul FRAX^® calculeaza probabilitatea de fractura pe 10 ani. Rezultatul consta in aprecierea probabilitatii de fractura de sold pe 10 ani si a probabilitatii de fractura osteoporotica majora (fracturi vertebrale clinice, antebrat, sold, humerus) pe 10 ani.

The University of Sheffield launched the FRAX tool in 2008. At that time the University hosted the The World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases (1991-2010), and the FRAX tool is based on data generated from that centre. However, FRAX was neither developed or endorsed by WHO . Any references to the ‘WHO tool’ or to the WHO Collaborating Centre after it finished its work in 2010 are incorrect.