Predicting and preventing the risk of hip fracture related to osteoporosis

Researchers at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have made a great leap toward predicting the risk of hip fracture among people with osteoporosis and evaluating the effectiveness of specific drugs to prevent it. The BCN Med Tech Unit of the UPF Department of Engineering, together with the company 3D-Shaper Medical, have developed two leading studies in which they present a new computational system to predict and prevent the risk of hip fracture far more precisely than the most common clinical methods today.