The team used a University of Sheffield developed tool called FRAX, which predicts the probability of a hip fracture or a major
osteoporotic fracture (a hip,
spine, upper arm or lower arm fracture), to identify older women at high risk.
It can be concluded that high urinary phytate concentrations are correlated with reduced bone mass loss in lumbar
spine over 12 months and with reduced 10 - year probability of hip and major
osteoporotic fracture, indicating that increased phytate consumption can prevent development of osteoporosis.