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Trabecular bone score (TBS) is a recently-developed analytical tool that performs novel grey-level texture measurements on lumbar spine dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) images, and thereby captures information relating to trabecular microarchitecture. In order for TBS to usefully add to bone mineral density (BMD) and clinical risk factors in osteoporosis risk stratification, it must be independently associated with fracture risk, readily obtainable, and ideally, present a risk which is amenable to osteoporosis treatment. This paper summarizes a review of the scientific literature performed by a Working Group of the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis. Low TBS is consistently associated with an increase in both prevalent and incident fractures that is partly independent of both clinical risk factors and areal BMD (aBMD) at the lumbar spine and proximal femur. More recently, TBS has been shown to have predictive value for fracture independent of fracture probabilities using the FRAX® algorithm. Although TBS changes with osteoporosis treatment, the magnitude is less than that of aBMD of the spine, and it is not clear how change in TBS relates to fracture risk reduction. TBS may also have a role in the assessment of fracture risk in some causes of secondary osteoporosis (e.g., diabetes, hyperparathyroidism and glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis). In conclusion, there is a role for TBS in fracture risk assessment in combination with both aBMD and FRAX.

Original publication

DOI

10.1016/j.bone.2015.05.016

Type

Journal article

Journal

Bone

Publication Date

09/2015

Volume

78

Pages

216 - 224

Keywords

Bone mineral density, Epidemiology, FRAX, Fragility fracture, Osteoporosis, Trabecular bone score (TBS), Absorptiometry, Photon, Adult, Aged, Algorithms, Bone Density, Bone and Bones, Cross-Sectional Studies, Cushing Syndrome, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Female, Femur, Fracture Healing, Humans, Hyperparathyroidism, Primary, Lumbar Vertebrae, Male, Middle Aged, Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal, Osteoporotic Fractures, Probability, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors