Background: The main consequence of osteoporosis is the occurrence fractures due to bone fragility, with important sequelae in terms disability and mortality. It has been already demonstrated that information about mass density (BMD) alone not sufficient predict risk fragility fractures, since several occur patients normal BMD [1]. Fragility Score a parameter allows estimate skeletal thanks tra...

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation increases by fivefold the risk for thromboembolic stroke. Warfarin therapy reduces that risk by 64%, but increases the risk for major bleeding. We wanted to study the quality of the warfarin therapy given in a Norwegian general practice and to calculate which patients would have probable benefit of the treatment. MATERIAL AND METHOD We retrospectively recorded t...