Survivors of childhood cancer face challenges from bone mineral density (BMD) deficits due to treatment exposures and other ...

Growth, Dev Aging 1991;55:249-256. Lu PW, Howman-Giles R, Briody J, Morley K, Humphrie I, Allen J, Cowell CT, Sillence D. Bone mineral density of total body, spine, and femoral neck in normal children ...

Bone health often doesn’t get the attention it deserves until there’s a problem, like a fracture or persistent pain. But by ...

On the T-score scale, 0 represents normal, healthy bone density of a 30-year-old person (the age of peak bone density). T-scores above 0 and slightly below 0 are within the normal range. Your score ...

2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 3 Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, Lady Davis Institute Med Res, Jewish General Hospital, McGill ...

A T-score of -1.0 or above indicates normal bone density; a score between -1.0 and -2.5 suggests low bone density (osteopenia ...

If her measured bone density is no worse than about 10% below that average value in 30 year olds, which is called a T-score of minus one or better, we say she's normal. If that woman has a ...

Vitamin D supplements may have no bearing on the severity of injuries from falls in postmenopausal women and older men, according to a new draft recommendation.

Bone mineral density determinations ... The giant osteoclasts were detached from bone and frequently apoptotic in a normal marrow stroma, with low-to-normal amounts of osteoid and osteoblasts.