Journal of Osteoporosis
Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 7174960, 1 page
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7174960

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to “New Issues in the Management of Osteoporosis”

Joonas Sirola,¹ Manuel Diaz Curiel,² Risto Honkanen,¹ and Jun Iwamoto³

¹Bone and Cartilage Research Unit, University of Kuopio, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
²Metabolic Bone Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid and Jimenez Diaz Foundation, 28049 Madrid, Spain
³Institute for Integrated Sports Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan

Correspondence should be addressed to Joonas Sirola; joonas.sirola@kuh.fi

Received 11 May 2017; Accepted 22 May 2017; Published 22 November 2017

Copyright © 2017 Joonas Sirola et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In the article titled “New Issues in the Management of Osteoporosis” [1], there was an error regarding the FRAX® tool, which should be clarified as follows.

The article notes, “It introduces and validates the Mikkeli Osteoporosis Index (MOI) and compares its performance to WHO FRAX tool in separate Finnish cohorts of postmenopausal women. The performance of MOI was found to be comparable to that of World Health Organization (WHO) FRAX-tool in identification of intervention thresholds.” However, the World Health Organization (WHO) did not develop, test, or endorse the FRAX tool or its recommendations [2]. The metabolic bone disease unit at the University of Sheffield that developed FRAX was a WHO Collaborating Centre from 1991 to 2010, but treatment guidelines must undergo a formal process before they can be endorsed by the WHO.

References

J. Sirola, M. D. Curiel, R. Honkanen, and J. Iwamoto, “New issues in the management of osteoporosis,” Journal of Osteoporosis, vol. 2011, Article ID 582789, 1 page, 2011.

N. Ford, S. L. Norris, and S. R. Hill, “Clarifying WHO’s position on the FRAX® tool for fracture prediction,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 94, no. 12, p. 862, 2016.