I tested my belly fat – the results were horrifying
In a basement office in central London, I am poring over a scan showing an alarmingly high amount of visceral fat in my body; ...
Daily Mail22 天
DR SARAH JARVIS: The NHS MUST screen for osteoporosis - it's left me with the bones of a 90 ...
Yet only half of hospitals in the UK have specialist clinics – known ... Soon after this, I asked my GP for a DEXA scan, and the results were shocking. My bone density was around the same ...
Kaleido Scope8 年
The DEXA Scan
Physicians commonly choose DEXA because it uses a low level of radiation (about the same as you would get on a flight from New York to Los Angeles), but detects low levels of bone loss much better ...
The Daily Telegraph26 天
How I reversed my osteoporosis at 58 – without medication
In 2013, we returned to the UK and I started running again ... Paul thought it could offer a significant improvement on the usual Dexa scan X-ray, which is the standard way of testing bone ...
University of Bristol4 年
Generation of DXA - Derived Phenotypes in UK Biobank (AUGMENT study)
AUGMENT is a Wellcome Trust funded project which stands for AUtomated Generation of Musculoskeletal phENotypes from the UK biobank exTended imaging study ... towards the development of common ...
Kaleido Scope8 年
The Quality of Your Scan
The DEXA scan procedure may look simple to you, but it is actually very complex. A correctly positioned and analyzed scan is crucial, because it provides the most accurate, most reliable ...