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Isn it necessary to measure bone density at the hip or spine to assess hip or spine fracture risk?

April 26, 2017assess bone density fracture hip measure necessary risk spine

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Isn it necessary to measure bone density at the hip or spine to assess hip or spine fracture risk?

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Not with the OsteoGram that has been specially tested for this purpose. Studies in the late 90’s showed that the OsteoGram can be used for spine and non-spine fracture risk prediction with high reliability.