We investigated the age-reduction of t-score

Osteoporosis is very common, but predotvratimyh diseases and, therefore, important that there are appropriate diagnostic criteria to determine who is at risk of fractures of low-trauma. In 1994 the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced the definition of osteoporosis and osteopenia using T-scores, which identified 30% of Caucasian postmenopausal women, as with osteoporosis. However, using the WHO T-scale thresholds-2. 5 osteoporosis and -1. 0 for osteopenia may be misplaced in skeletal sites other than spine, hip and forearm or when other methods such as quantitative ultrasound (QUS) are used. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the age dependence of T-scores for speed of sound (SOS) measurements within ankle bone, phalanx and metatarsal using sunlight Omnisense, assess the prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia at these sites using the WHO criteria, and calculate appropriate equivalent T- through rapids. The study included 278 healthy premenopausal, 194 healthy women and 115 postmenopausal women with vertebral fractures indulgent. All women had SOS measurements within ankle bone, phalanx and metatarsal and bone mineral density (IPC) measurements in the lumbar spine and hip. Group to healthy menopausal women aged 20-40 years with premenopausal group were used to estimate the population mean and SD for each of the SOS and the locations of the measurement. Healthy postmenopausal women were divided into normal, osteopenia or osteoporosis based on standard WHO definition of osteoporosis and is expressed as a percentage. We investigated the age-reduction of T-score of 20-79 on the stratification of healthy people by 10 years of age and calculate the mean T-scores for each of these groups. Finally, we estimated the corresponding T-thresholds by using five different approaches. The prevalence of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women aged 50 years and older ranged from 1. 4 to 12. 7% SOS and 1. From 3 to 5. 2% of the IPC. Reduction of the age-T estimates ranged from 0. 92 to 1. 80 SOS measurements lasix 15 mg in the 60 to 69 years old and 0. From 60 to 1. 19 BMD measurements in the same age group. WHO definition is not suitable for use with the results of measurements of SOS, and reviewed the T-account thresholds to diagnose osteoporosis -2. 6, 3. 0, -3. 0 and 2. 2 and osteopenia -1. 4 1. 6, 2. 3 and 1. 4, radius, bone, phalanx and metatarsal, respectively, were recommended. .