Osteoporosis
Research from S.Z. Liu and colleagues provide new insights into osteoporosis
Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 31st, 2009
According to recent research from Xian, People's Republic of China, "The objective of this paper is to investigate the correlation between serum macro-element and trace element contents and bone mineral density (BMD) as well as the occurrence of osteoporosis. After the epidemiological investigation of 290 postmenopausal women from ages 45 to 65 in the Xi'an urban area, their blood was collected and serum concentrations of macro-elements, calcium, phosphonium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, and trace elements, zinc, iron, copper, and selenium were determined using atomic absorption spectrometry."
"Their BMD was measured by QDR-2000 dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA)....
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