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Figure 6. FRAX online for US Caucasian patients. This example shows a 65 year-old woman who has no clinical risk factors for fracture and a femoral neck T-score of -2.3 with a Hologic instrument. The 10-year probability of major osteoporotic fracture is 10% and the 10-year probability of hip fracture is 2.2%. These levels do not meet the National Osteoporosis Foundation guidelines for initiation of pharmacological therapy in the US (6). Image reproduced with permission of the World Health Organization.