OBJECTIVE To assess doctors' and patients' views about a district general hospital bone densitometry service and to examine existing practice to influence future provision. DESIGN Three postal surveys: (a) of doctors potentially using the service, (b) of patients undergoing a bone densitometry test during a six month period, and (c) of the referring doctors of the patients undergoing the test...

This report provides general information about osteoporosis and describes the use of bone densitometry as a tool to screen for, diagnose and manage osteoporosis in white postmenopausal women. Discussion is limited to white women because of lack of research on osteoporosis in men, and in women of different racial and ethnic groups. The report does not evaluate the safety and efficacy of all bone...

Exercise is commonly recommended in the prevention and management of osteoporosis. The most common method to monitor bone mass and its response to interventions is bone densitometry. While closely associated with risk of fracture, densitometry-derived areal bone mineral density (aBMD) does not provide a reliable indication of bone geometry or morphological adaptation to stimuli. In fact, the ef...

Osteoporosis is a complication of permanent androgen deprivation in men with prostate carcinoma, following either bilateral orchiectomy or treatment with GnRH agonists. The present approach to the problem of osteoporosis includes prevention, adequate follow-up and appropriate treatment as an imperative of contemporary urological and endocrinological management of these patients. Bone densitomet...

BACKGROUND The study was planned to assess effect of physical exercise on bone remodeling in type I diabetics with osteopenia. METHODS Twenty-four type I diabetes mellitus (DM1) with osteopenia (10 females and 14 males) were compared to thirty-eight age- and sex-matched healthy control individuals (20 females and 18 males) for biochemical and radiologic parameters of bone mass. Laboratory inv...