Osteoporosis

• Diagnosis, Imaging, Screening
• General Information
• Risk Factors
• Risk Reduction
• Treatment

Osteoporosis

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

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An Approach to Identifying Osteopenic Women at Increased Short-term Risk of Fracture. (Obstet Gynecol Surv)

Calcaneal ultrasound predicts early postmenopausal fractures as well as axial BMD. A prospective study of 422 women. (Osteoporos Int)

Diagnosis of osteoporosis in men, premenopausal women, and children. (J Clin Densitom)

Diagnostic performance of quantitative ultrasound calcaneus measurement in case finding for osteoporosis in Thai postmenopausal women. (J Obstet Gynaecol Res)

Does This Woman Have Osteoporosis? (JAMA)

[Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in Clinical Practice and Its Trouble Spots at Bone Mineral Measurement.] (Clin Calcium)

Evaluation and measurement of bone mass. (Epilepsy Behav)

Informing, advising, or persuading? An assessment of bone mineral density testing information from consumer health websites. (Int J Technol Assess Health Care)

MR imaging findings in transient osteoporosis of the hip. (Eur J Radiol)

Osteoporosis for the home care physician. Part 1: etiology and current diagnostic strategies. (J Am Med Dir Assoc)

Osteoporosis: point-of-care testing. (Ann Pharmacother)

Overdiagnosis of osteoporosis in children due to misinterpretation of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). (J Pediatr)

Patterns of bone mineral density testing. (J Gen Intern Med)

Quantitative ultrasound and bone mineral density: discriminatory ability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and controls with and without vertebral deformities. (Ann Rheum Dis)

Risk assessment and screening for low bone mineral density in a multi-ethnic population of women and men: does one approach fit all? (Osteoporos Int)

Screening for low bone mineral density with quantitative ultrasound within the primary health care system. (Scand J Prim Health Care)

When should the doctor order a spine X-ray? Identifying vertebral fractures for osteoporosis care: results from the European Prospective Osteoporosis Study (EPOS). (J Bone Miner Res)

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