With age, virtually everyone loses bone density, a process that typically starts at age 30 and accelerates rapidly in women past menopause who do not take supplemental estrogen. In men, who enter ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women with thin bones should be screened every year and those with denser bones can safely wait up to 17 years to have their next bone mineral density test, according ...
You can’t see or feel osteoporosis, so how do you know if you have it? A simple, painless bone density test can give you the answer by measuring how strong your bones are. Get the details on the most ...
Low bone density is no longer a disease of the elderly. It is increasingly detected in the young adults, warning of the ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: The results for my last bone density test show not only a T-score but also a Z-score. For my spine (L1 through L4), the T-score is -3.4, while the Z-score is -1.4. Can you please ...
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