Site-specific variation in the classification of osteoporosis, and the diagnostic reclassification using the lowest individual lumbar vertebra T-score compared with the L1-L4 mean, in early post-menopausal women

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 852-857

  Sahota, O ^a   Pearson, D ^c   Cawte, S W ^d   San, P ^b   Hosking, D J ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Division of Mineral Metabolism   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Medical Physics ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Osteoporosis classification; Postmenopausal women; Skeletal sites; T score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MULTICENTER STUDY; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOREARM; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034519045     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001980070044     Document Type: Article

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