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Bone Mineral Density (BMD) Defined
A measure of the amount of bone and its mineral. There are several kinds but one called DXA uses very low doses of X-rays to make an accurate assessment. The two sites of BMD usually measured are in the lower spine (lumbar vertebrae numbers 1-4) and in the total hip. BMD should be repeated in the same season and no more frequently than every two years to obtain an accurate estimate of change. Standard deviations below average BMD for young women are called T Scores. A T Score lower than –2.5 is considered osteoporosis, and lower than –1.0 to -2.4 is called osteopenia.
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Midlife thiness boosts brittle bones
Published August 28, 2008, 3:59 am, TVNZ
Men who are slimmer in middle age are at greater risk of having osteoporosis later in life, a new study confirms. And while losing weight between one's 40s and 70s increased osteoporosis risk, weight gain reduced it, Dr. Haakon E. Meyer of the University of Oslo in Norway and colleagues found.
Thinness in midlife boosts later brittle bone risk
Published August 27, 2008, 10:43 am, Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who are slimmer in middle age are at greater risk of having osteoporosis later in life, a new study confirms.
Drug Stops Bone Loss From Breast Cancer Chemo
Published August 21, 2008, 2:01 pm, HealthDay via Yahoo! News
THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Zometa (zoledronic acid) prevented bone loss at 12 months in premenopausal women undergoing chemotherapy after they had surgery for early stage breast cancer, a new study found.
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Published August 21, 2008, 7:33 am, HealthCentral.com
THURSDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) -- The osteoporosis drug Zometa (zoledronic acid) prevented bone loss at 12 months in premenopausal women undergoing chemotherapy after they had surgery for early stage breast cancer, a new study found.
Drug Stops Bone Loss From Breast Cancer Chemo
Published August 21, 2008, 7:31 am, Health Scout
Zoledronic acid stabilized mineral density in premenopausal women, study finds.
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- Exercise for preventing and treating osteoporosis in postmenopausal women: Exercise improves bone mineral density
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- Is a gene important for bone resorption a candidate for obesity? An association and linkage study on the RANK (receptor activator of nuclear factor-?B) gene in a large Caucasian sample: In light of findings that osteoporosis and obesity may share some common genetic determination and previous reports that RANK (receptor activator of nuclear factor-?B) is expressed in skeletal muscles which are important for energy metabolism, we hypothe
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- Low dietary potassium intakes and high dietary estimates of net endogenous acid production are associated with low bone mineral density in premenopausal women and increased markers of bone resorption in postmenopausal women -- Macdonald et al. 81 (4): 923
- Nutrition in Bone Health Revisited: A Story Beyond Calcium -- Ilich and Kerstetter 19 (6): 715 -- Journal of the American College of Nutrition
- Potassium, magnesium, and fruit and vegetable intakes are associated with greater bone mineral density in elderly men and women -- Tucker et al. 69 (4): 727 -- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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