St. Luke s diabetes outcomes beat national statistics. Take care of yourself and your family, check out today's health notes . Bone is lost without you even realizing it. A variety of bone density tests are available. All are safe, have acceptable accuracy and precision, and have been demonstrated to predict accuracy and precision.
Bone density is a measurement of bone in grams per square centimeter.
That number, like the number that represents your serum cholesterol level, places you in a spectrum with the rest of the population. Like serum cholesterol, researchers had to decide at what point bone loss was significant. Bone density measurements from thousands of women were collected and determined which of those had osteoporotic fractures and who did not. They matched these values against the average bone density for women in their 30 s, when bone mass is generally at its peak. They used peak bone mass as a reference point from which to define osteoporotic risk.