Can osteoporosis be diagnosed without a bone density test?
If you have a fracture from a simple fall, that is a good indicator that you have osteoporosis. But you don’t want to wait until you have a fracture to find out if you might be at risk. There are many factors that increase your risk of having osteoporosis if your mother or grandmother had it, if you smoke, if you have low body weight, or if you had low estrogen levels or low dietary calcium intake earlier in life but a measurement of low bone density is the single most predictive factor for osteoporosis.
