title: [Comparative evaluation of bone mineral density in Mexican women using x-ray bone densitometry and ultrasound].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Climaterio, Instituto Nacional de Perinatología, Méx., D.F.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Llaca Rodríguez
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aguilera Pérez
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ahued Ahued
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rio de la Loza
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Mendoza Torres
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Coria Soto
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Zambrana Castañeda
mesh_terms: 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