A 3-year follow-up study on bone structure elastic quality

Abstract. Osteoporosis is called a silent disease because bone fragility manifests itself to the patient only in an advanced state, through fracture and pain. Medical industry leaders recognize that current golden standard diagnostic method, densitometry, or Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA), may not always be sufficient assess patient’s real risk of [1]. Indeed, pathological alterations affect mineral content (quantity) bone, but also its “quality”, which can measured from elastic properties internal trabecular structure by means Bone Elastic Structure Test, BES TEST®. In this study, incidence fractures was assessed after 3-year follow-up period women enrolled for population study 2015. The TEST® resulted effective estimator health, improve assessment map.