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Pricier, Questionable Bone Density Scan Growing in Use

For a sidebar on how this story came together, click here. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has long been the gold standard for osteoporosis screening. But now, thousands of patients may be ...
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DXA May Not Detect Bone Deterioration in Patients With MACS

Patients with mild autonomous cortisol secretion show bone microstructural deterioration despite normal areal BMD on routine DXA scans.
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General population study shows that BMI classification system wrongly identifies some people as having overweight or obesity

Research from Italy to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard ...
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Scanning and monitoring of osteoporosis in early breast cancer survivors: The use of Arm-DXA as a tool to decrease the gap between the guidelines and real practice.

Impact of routine subspecialty pathology review on the care of women age ≤ 65 years with lymph node negative breast cancer: A practice review. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 ASCO ...
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Dual Energy X Ray Absorptiometry - DXA

This module is about the measurement of bone density and body composition using the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) technique. DXA differs from many body composition techniques commonly used in ...