Bone density vs bone quality: what's a clinician to do?
Studies of the epidemiology of osteoporosis and of drug treatments for it have challenged the concept that denser bone means stronger bone. Bone strength or resistance to fracture is not easily measured by routine densitometry, being a function of both density and quality.
Licata
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Department of Endocrinology, A53, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA. licataa@ccf.org
D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon / Q000379:methods; D015519:Bone Density / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors
D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents