Treatment High calcium containing food From adult age, bones progressively loose their calcium content throughout life due to excess of urinary waste over assimilation. In women, this loss is stronger after menopause, particularly when menopause occurs early. You will be lying comfortably on a table for about fifteen minutes.
Densitometry is safe and painless, but it is of course contraindicated in pregnant women.
Osteoporosis as defined by the World Health Organisation is diagnosed when the T-score of the patient exceeds 2.5 negative standard deviations. Beyond this limit fracture risk increases significantly. Results will be given to your physician, who will prescribe to you if necessary a calcium-rich diet or even drugs in order to increase or at last stabilise your bone mineral content. More exercise and milk products intake are anyway the first step of treatment. Densitometry may be repeated after one or two years to check treatment efficiency.