Messina, C.
Rinaudo, L.
Cesana, B. M.
Maresca, D.
Piodi, L. P.
Sconfienza, L. M.
Sardanelli, F.
Ulivieri, F. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1357-3425
Article History
Received: 19 May 2020
Accepted: 1 September 2020
First Online: 16 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
: Local Ethical Committee approvals were obtained by each Hospital (Comitato Etico Milano Area 2. Protocol N 2.0 BQ. 265_2017, 13th June 2017; Comitato Etico San Raffaele; Studio clinico 2.0 BQ, version 4.0, 8th August 2019).
: All authors have no competing interests. The engineer LR, formerly working in Politecnico of Turin and now employed at the commercial company “TECHNOLOGIC S.r.l”, has extracted and tabulated the densitometric data and has applied the mathematical algorithms based on the finite element analysis to calculate the Bone Strain Index. TECHNOLOGIC S.r.l. provided support in the form of salary for LR, but did not have any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.