Sentences with phrase «mineral density test»

A bone mineral density test is the best way to check your bone health.

So this dear lady got a mini-trampoline and followed Dr. Lee's advice faithfully for 15 months and then had another bone mineral density test.

Women who suffer such fractures should undergo bone mineral density testing, and women with a bone mineral density T - score of equal to or less than -1.0 should be diagnosed as having osteoporosis, they write.

To his great astonishment, he found that several bone mineral density tests showed a significant improvement without any side effects.

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The small increase in the high - dose group did not translate into beneficial effects because authors found no difference between the three study groups for changes in spine, average total - hip, average femoral neck or total - body bone mineral density, trabecular bone score, muscle mass or sit - to - stand tests.

Karen E. Hansen, M.D., M.S., of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, and colleagues compared the effects of placebo, low - dose cholecalciferol (a form of vitamin D) and high - dose cholecalciferol on one - year changes on total TFCA, bone mineral density, sit - to - stand tests and muscle mass in 230 postmenopausal women (75 or younger) with vitamin D insufficiency.

She and Dr. Lee were talking about her recent bone mineral density (BMD) test and the fact that the test showed she had osteopenia, a decrease in BMD that may be a precursor to osteoporosis.