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Osteoporosis
Studies add new findings to osteoporosis body of knowledge
December 29th, 2005
New findings from the United States, Japan and United Kingdom describe advances in osteoporosis. Study 1: A recent study reveals that radiographic vertebral deformities are sometimes misdiagnosed as new vertebral fractures. Researchers from the United States "prospectively examined, in a large cohort of older women, the proportion of incident radiographic vertebral deformities diagnosed as incident clinical vertebral fractures in the same women at the same vertebral level. The proportion of deformities clinically diagnosed ranged from <15% for milder deformities to nearly 30% for more severe deformities. The relationship between radiographic and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-29)
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