Osteoporosis For Dummies by Carolyn Riester O'Connor & Sharon Perkins RN

Author:Carolyn Riester O'Connor & Sharon Perkins, RN
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley

Bone density testing, or bone densitometry is a radiological way to measure your bone density. Bone density measures the strength of your bones and helps predict the chance that you’ll sustain a bone fracture due to osteoporosis. The lower your bone density, the more likely you are to fracture a bone even after a slight injury.

Bone density can be measured by several different tests, which we review in the next section. A bone density test can tell you how your bone mass and strength stack up against others in your age group. The overall accuracy of bone mineral density tests is 85 to 99 percent.

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