Osteoporosis Epidemiology
Recent studies from University of British Columbia, Department of Orthopaedics add new data to osteoporosis epidemiology
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 9th, 2007
New research, "Tibial geometry is associated with failure load ex vivo: a MRI, pQCT and DXA study," is the subject of a report. According to recent research published in the journal Osteoporosis International, "We studied the relations between bone geometry and density and the mechanical properties of human cadaveric tibiae. Bone geometry, assessed by MRI and pQCT, and bone density, assessed by DXA, were significantly associated with bone's mechanical properties."
"However, cortical density assessed by pQCT was not associated with mechanical properties. The primary objective of this study was to determine the contribution of cross-sectional geometry (by MRI and...
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