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Osteopenia is asymptomatic, so it takes a bone-mineral density test—which determines your bone density, as higher mineral concentration makes bones more dense—to know if you’ve got it.
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If you have osteopenia but no risk factors, you’ll need a repeat scan in three to five years. For those at high risk for osteoporosis or those who already have it, scans every two years are wise.
Osteopenia is characterised by a t-score ranging from -1 to -2.5. In contrast, a t-score lower than -2.5 indicates the presence of osteoporosis, as stated in StatPearls.
DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 65-year-old, overweight white woman. I recently had a DEXA scan, and based on the results, my general physician prescribed Fosamax for osteopenia. The first dose created a ...
He said this could contribute to Asian people having the highest overall rates of osteopenia and osteoporosis of any racial/ethnic group in the U.S., whereas low bone density affects mostly white ...
Bilek LD, Flores LE, Waltman N, et al. Benefits of targeted vibration for bone strength and bone density in postmenopausal women with osteopenia: A randomized, sham-controlled trial. JBMR Plus .
"If someone has osteopenia but a low to moderate 10-year fracture risk, we’ll take a different approach than we would for someone with osteopenia who’s at high risk," Singer says.
If osteopenia is left untreated or your exercise regimen has not changed (or completely absent), it can progress to osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a stage of bone loss where they become brittle and ...
Osteoporosis in adult life is associated with a significant morbidity and may be predisposed to by osteopenia and failure to reach peak bone mass in childhood. Children treated for acute ...
“Osteopenia” is not a word I’d ever heard three months ago. And then, just like that, it was everywhere—on the results of my first bone-density, or DEXA, scan, and on the lips of most of ...