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Does Omnisense comply with WHO diagnosis criteria?

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Does Omnisense comply with WHO diagnosis criteria?

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Yes, Omnisense is WHO compliant. The Omnisense reference database has the same osteoporosis prevalence as spine and forearm DXA crossing the -2.5 diagnosis line at approximately 75 years of age. Scientific References about WHO Compliance Reference Database for Bone Speed of Sound Measurement by a Novel Quantitative Multi-site Ultrasound Device, M. Weiss, A. Ben Shlomo, P. Hagag, M. Rapoport, Osteoporosis International (2000) 11:688-696 Multi-site Bone Ultrasound Measurements on a North American Reference Population, D.L. Kendler, H.K. Genant, M. McClung, C. Rosen, N. Watts, Presented at the American College of Rheumatology 63rd Annual Meeting, November 1999, Boston and In Press Can the WHO Osteoporosis Criteria Be Applied to Ultrasound Measurements?, S. Ish-Shalom, I. Yaniv, C. Singal, Y.