In clinical practice I would prefer to use one year probabilities – why use 10-year fracture probability?
In young healthy individuals (with a low mortality) the one year probability is approximately 10% of the 10-year probability. Thus, an individual with a 10-year fracture probability of 40% would have approximately a 1-year probability of 4%. Higher percentage figures are more readily understood by patients and clinicians.
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