[Comparative evaluation of bone mineral density in Mexican women using x-ray bone densitometry and ultrasound].
With lifestyle changes in women, smoking and use of beverages with caffeine, and sedentarism increasing, so the risk factors for decalcification, increase; which is a public health problem by the higher incidence of osteoporotic fractures, as the age advances, specially in the postmenopause woman, which means a greater secondary morbidity-mortality; an important cause of physical disability, which directly affects psychoemotional wellbeing in women. In this study two methods of bone densitometry, were used; one of x ray, and other with ultrasound in 138 women during postmenopause with an average index of corporal mass of 29. Both results were compared of bone density, T measurement with osteopenia and osteoporosis. Double densitometry, was done in the 138 patients of lumbar spine with DEXA equipment, and of calcaneum with DTU-one equipment, by the same technician, finding the difference of T punctuation in this double study.
Llaca Rodríguez
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Departamento de Climaterio, Instituto Nacional de Perinatología, Méx., D.F.
Aguilera Pérez
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Ahued Ahued
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Rio de la Loza
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Mendoza Torres
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Coria Soto
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Zambrana Castañeda
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D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D015519:Bone Density; D002111:Calcaneus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003720:Densitometry / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D014463:Ultrasonography