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Objective: to analyze the clinical and organizational feasibility of using different intervention thresholds for the Russian population. Subjects and methods . The probability of fractures using the Russian FRAX model was calculated on a sample of 3,866 postmenopausal female residents from 6 cities of the Russian Federation. Different intervention thresholds, including fixed (20% for major fractures and 3% for hip fractures), age-dependent (European and Russian) ones, as well as alternative models, were analyzed. The proportion of women to be treated was estimated using different intervention thresholds. Results and discussion. The analysis of the effectiveness of the thresholds showed that the European threshold was the least appropriate one for the formed sample, since more than half (53.6%) of the women to be treated using the threshold, while the vast majority (90%) of the patients were in the younger age groups (50—54 years). There were very similar results of the effectiveness analysis of the fixed threshold (according to the USA National Osteoporosis Foundation — NOF) recommendations and that of the age-dependent threshold for Russia (in the context of the national clinical recommendations). Using the NOF approach in our sample could identify 47.8% of the postmenopausal women to be treated for osteoporosis. Their proportion rose from 29.6% of the patients aged 50—54 years to 80.6% of those aged 85 years and older. The alternative analyses of age-dependent thresholds showed great effectiveness when the fracture was considered not as a risk factor for future fractures, but as a clinical disease manifestation that was sufficient to recommend that the patient should be treated without FRAX counting. However, with their use, the proportion of older people to be treated remains not high enough. In this connection, there remains a need to search for the more adequate application of the existing intervention threshold or to develop a new, for example, hybrid variant of the age-dependent threshold.

Objective : to analyze the dynamics of quality of life (QOL) in patients with prior osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture during an 18-month follow-up study. Subjects and methods . The investigation enrolled 219 patients (mean age, 67.6 years) with vertebral fracture from seven centers of the Russian Federation. QOL was assessed four times using the EQ-5D (EuroQoL-5D) and TTO (Time Trade-Off) questionnaires during an 18-month prospective follow-up study. The work was done within the framework of the International Multicenter Study ICUROS (The International Costs and Utilities Related to Osteoporotic Fractures Study) organized by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (www.icuros.org). Results and discussion . The patients with vertebral compression fracture showed a statistically significant decrease in QOL throughout the follow-up period. Immediately after the fracture, there was a dramatic decrease in the total EQ-5D score, followed by its gradual increase. However, the emerging trend in QOL recovery proved to be unstable, and by the end of the 18th month, it was significantly lower than that before the fracture. On the contrary, the TTO questionnaire showed that QOL drastically decreased immediately after fracture, but at month 4 it reached the level that was before the fracture, and remained stable until the end of the follow-up period. Conclusion . The performed investigation enabled us to obtain data on QOL using the EQ-5D (QOL assessment from the social point of view) and TTO (individual QOL assessment) in the population of residents of the Russian Federation, in men and women aged 50 years and older with osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture.

Osteoporosis (OP) is one of the most common diseases and is characterized by serious clinical manifestations such as low-energy bone fractures that cause severe social consequences. In this connection, OP is now receiving much attention worldwide. In Yaroslavl, the Department of Therapy (Head, Professor N.I. Korshunov, MD), Institute of Postgraduate Education, Yaroslavl State Medical University (Chancellor, Prof. A.V. Pavlov, MD), has been intensively conducting researches into different aspects of OP for more than 20 years. The main areas of the investigations performed are the issues of the epidemiology and outcomes of osteoporotic fractures, the relationship of OP to different diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular diseases), as well as the specific features of the development of OP in fertile men and women and the problem of calcium and vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women.