| MEMIKI 2004-10-04, 2:21 am |
| >From: "Art S" TheDabbler01@att.net
>Date: 9/22/2004
>"MEMIKI" <memiki@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:20040922131013.19211.00001393@mb-m03.aol.com...
>the
>from
>are
>
>Sounds good so far.
>
>as
>
>For reference, take a look at
>http://courses.washington.edu/bonephys/opDEXA3.html
>"I think the most important region of interest is the total hip, because it
>is the most
>representative and contains both cortical and trabecular bone"...
>
>"It is worth checking that the neck, trochanteric and intertrochanteric
>values are within
>1/2 standard deviation from the total hip. Large discrepancies could mean
>technical
>error, or a maldistribution of cortical/trabecular bone. Old studies looked
>at the
>femoral neck, which generally gives the same fracture prediction as the total
>hip. Some
>people advocate using the lowest region to predict fractures; this approach
>has never
>been validated in a prospective study with fracture as the endpoint."
>
>Since your total hip improved but (apparently) the neck did not, see if you
>can get
>your previous DEXA and compare the pictures and angles between the two
>readings
>to make sure that the total hip is the same on both scans.
>
>Art
>
>show
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Art -- My thanks for your reply, all the information, and the links for further
reference. I much appreciate. Methinks I am going to put this out of my mind
and go no further for now......just keep on taking Actonel and exercising.
Perhaps by next year's test the improvement will have reached the neck of the
hips.
Miki
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