osteoporosis

Revolutionising osteoporosis screening: advancements in opportunistic screening using wrist radiographs

Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disorder characterised by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue. This condition leads to enhanced bone fragility and a consequent increase in fracture risk, predominantly affecting the elderly population. It presents a significant clinical challenge due to its often asymptomatic nature, typically until an overt fracture occurs.

Dr Robert Meertens

University of Exeter

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Bone mineral density in children: New UK perspective for interpretation

The possibility of poor bone health in children is becoming greater from poor nutrition, lack of exercise, hereditary factors or iatrogenic due to treatment of chronic conditions. Lumbar spine (LS) and total body less head (TBLH) are the preferred sites for measuring bone mineral content (BMC) in grammes or areal bone mineral density (BMD) in […]

Sue Barlow

Vertec Scientific

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Should vertebral fracture assessment be routine in the DXA room?

For many years there has been a dilemma around the importance of vertebral fractures in the treatment plan for osteoporosis, and the under-diagnosis of them in the imaging world from radiologists who perhaps do not see them as unusual in a certain cohort of patients and do not document their presence. The great majority of […]

Sue Barlow

Vertec Scientific

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Promising diagnostics for osteoporosis diagnosis and fracture risk prediction

Osteoporosis affects 200 million women worldwide, approximately 10% aged 60 and 67% aged 90. Within the UK, 50% of women and 20% of men will suffer a fracture after the age of 50 and annual rates are increasing. After a hip fracture, a high proportion of patients are unable to live without support as they […]

Professor Keith Rogers, Professor Pavel Matousek

Cranfield Forensic Institute, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

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Disuse osteopenia

Low bone mass, manifested in the conditions of osteopenia and osteoporosis, is the primary cause of bone fragility, and reductions in bone mass are the inevitable corollary of ageing and menopause. Bone loss may also be caused or exacerbated by reduced mechanical loading on the skeleton such as through immobilisation following injury, giving rise to […]

Dr Susan J Hopkins, Dr Karen M Knapp

University of Exeter

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