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Overview

Didier Hans is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and specializes in medicine, with a focus on orthopedics and sports medicine, surgery, and physiology. Their research primarily addresses bone health and osteoporosis, covering related fields such as bone and joint diseases, hip and femur fractures, and bone metabolism.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Machine Learning Solutions for Osteoporosis-A Review, 2020, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
  • DXA parameters, Trabecular Bone Score (TBS) and Bone Mineral Density (BMD), in fracture risk prediction in endocrine-mediated secondary osteoporosis, 2021, Endocrine
  • The Effects of Time-Restricted Eating versus Standard Dietary Advice on Weight, Metabolic Health and the Consumption of Processed Food: A Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial in Community-Based Adults, 2021, Nutrients
  • Previous fracture and subsequent fracture risk: a meta-analysis to update FRAX, 2023, Osteoporosis International
  • Abaloparatide in Postmenopausal Women With Osteoporosis and Type 2 Diabetes: A Post Hoc Analysis of the ACTIVE Study, 2020, JBMR Plus

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Didier Hans include:

  • Elena González Rodríguez
  • William D. Leslie
  • Olivier Lamy
  • Enisa Shevroja
  • Neil Binkley

The major publication venues where Didier Hans frequently contributes are:

  • Journal of Clinical Densitometry
  • Osteoporosis International
  • Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
  • Bone
  • Archives of Osteoporosis

Their work addresses key topics such as:

  • Bone health and osteoporosis research
  • Bone and Joint Diseases
  • Hip and Femur Fractures
  • Bone health and treatments
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Bone Metabolism and Diseases
  • Body Composition Measurement Techniques

Best Publications

  • Ultrasonographic heel measurements to predict hip fracture in elderly women: the EPIDOS prospective study.

    D Hans;P Dargent-Molina;AM Schott;JL Sebert

  • The use of clinical risk factors enhances the performance of BMD in the prediction of hip and osteoporotic fractures in men and women.

    J A Kanis;Anders Odén;O Johnell;Helena Johansson

  • Official Positions of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry and Executive Summary of the 2007 ISCD Pediatric Position Development Conference

    Sanford Baim;Mary B. Leonard;Maria Luisa Bianchi;Didier B. Hans

  • A meta-analysis of trabecular bone score in fracture risk prediction and its relationship to FRAX.

    Eugene V McCloskey;Anders Odén;Nicholas C Harvey;William D Leslie

  • Bone microarchitecture assessed by TBS predicts osteoporotic fractures independent of bone density: the Manitoba study.

    Didier Hans;Andrew L Goertzen;Marc-Antoine Krieg;William D Leslie

  • International Society for Clinical Densitometry 2007 Adult and Pediatric Official Positions

    E. Michael Lewiecki;Catherine M. Gordon;Sanford Baim;Mary B. Leonard

  • Clinical use of quantitative computed tomography and peripheral quantitative computed tomography in the management of osteoporosis in adults: the 2007 ISCD Official Positions.

    Klaus Engelke;Judith E. Adams;Gabriele Armbrecht;Peter Augat

  • Interpretation and use of FRAX in clinical practice

    J. A. Kanis;D. Hans;C. Cooper;C. Cooper;S. Baim

  • Age-related differences in fat-free mass, skeletal muscle, body cell mass and fat mass between 18 and 94 years.

    U G Kyle;L Genton;D Hans;L Karsegard

  • A meta-analysis of the association of fracture risk and body mass index in women

    Helena Johansson;John A. Kanis;Anders Odén;Eugene McCloskey

  • How hip and whole-body bone mineral density predict hip fracture in elderly women: the EPIDOS Prospective Study.

    A. M. Schott;C. Cormier;D. Hans;F. Favier

  • Correlations between trabecular bone score, measured using anteroposterior dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry acquisition, and 3-dimensional parameters of bone microarchitecture: an experimental study on human cadaver vertebrae.

    Didier Hans;Nicole Barthe;Stephanie Boutroy;Laurent Pothuaud

  • Quantitative ultrasound in the management of osteoporosis: the 2007 ISCD Official Positions.

    Marc-Antoine Krieg;Reinhart Barkmann;Stefano Gonnelli;Alison Stewart

  • Healthy elderly French women living at home have secondary hyperparathyroidism and high bone turnover in winter. EPIDOS Study Group.

    M C Chapuy;A M Schott;P Garnero;D Hans

  • TBS (trabecular bone score) and diabetes-related fracture risk.

    William D. Leslie;Berengère Aubry-Rozier;Olivier Lamy;Didier Hans

  • Correlations between grey-level variations in 2D projection images (TBS) and 3D microarchitecture: applications in the study of human trabecular bone microarchitecture.

    Laurent Pothuaud;Pascal Carceller;Didier Hans

  • Ultrasound discriminates patients with hip fracture equally well as dual energy X-ray absorptiometry and independently of bone mineral density.

    A.M. Schott;S. Weill-Engerer;D. Hans;F. Duboeuf

  • Radiation exposure in bone mineral density assessment

    Christopher F. Njeh;Thomas Fuerst;Didier Hans;Glen M. Blake

  • A 3-year longitudinal study on body composition changes in the elderly: Role of physical exercise

    Comasia Addolorata Raguso;Ursula Kyle;Michel Picard Kossovsky;Catherine Roynette

  • Quantitative ultrasound of the heel and fracture risk assessment: an updated meta-analysis

    Alireza Moayyeri;J. E. Adams;R. A. Adler;M. A. Krieg

Frequent Co-Authors

William D. Leslie
William D. Leslie University of Manitoba
Claude Pichard
Claude Pichard Geneva College
Helena Johansson
Helena Johansson Australian Catholic University
John A. Kanis
John A. Kanis Australian Catholic University
Eugene V. McCloskey
Eugene V. McCloskey University of Sheffield
Mark A. Kotowicz
Mark A. Kotowicz University of Melbourne
Julie A. Pasco
Julie A. Pasco Deakin University
Pedro Marques-Vidal
Pedro Marques-Vidal University of Lausanne
René Rizzoli
René Rizzoli Geneva College
Neil Binkley
Neil Binkley University of Wisconsin–Madison

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