[Daily practice using the guidelines for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Proximal femoral BMD and measurement manual].
The diagnosis of osteoporosis is made from the measurement of BMD. Since DXA at the hip best predicts hip fracture among the various methods of bone densitometry, hip DXA is currently recommended as the standard method for the diagnosis of osteoporosis in Europe and USA. In Japan, hip DXA has not been common because of difficulty in the measurement due to the short neck axis length compared with Caucasian. However, because of the recent development in DXA technology and the acknowledgment of the importance of hip BMD, hip DXA has recently garnered attention in Japan. In this paragraph, general guideline and points of attention in hip DXA have been summarized.
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Kawasaki Medical School, Department of Nuclear Medicine.
D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon / Q000379:methods*; D015519:Bone Density; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011187:Posture; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic