Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) in HIV-infected patients: a reliable and low-cost technique for bone health assessment
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Objective Bone demineralization is common in HIV-infected subjects. Reliable and low cost methods would be useful in order to identify and monitor bone alterations both in older and younger HIV+ patients. Recent data in normal population suggest that bone mineral quality (BMQ), assessed by a quantitative ultrasound (QUS) technique, could be an early marker of osteopenia/osteoporosis. Therefore, we investigated the usefulness of QUS in order to study bone health assessment in HIV-infected adults.
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