In a basement office in central London, I am poring over a scan showing an alarmingly high amount of visceral fat in my body; ...
Nancy Pelosi sustained a hip fracture due to a fall while in Europe. Days later, she underwent hip replacement surgery.
If you’ve ever wondered what a DEXA scan is and who should get one, we’ll break it down in this Avera Medical Minute.
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FRAX is a tool to evaluate fracture risk based on individual patient models, incorporating clinical risk factors and bone ...
Researchers explored the association between osteoporosis and patient-reported outcomes among postmenopausal women with systemic sclerosis.
Approximately half of these patients (48%) were aged > 50 years, and 89% of this subgroup (5166 individuals) had not had dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanning. “It was disappointing ...