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Quantitative CT lumbar spine BMD cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis among older East Asian women should be lower than the value for Caucasians
For Caucasian women, the QCT (quantitative CT) lumbar spine (LS) bone mineral density (BMD) cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis is 80 mg/ml. At the age of approximate 78 years, US Caucasian women QCT L...
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Open AccessQuantitative CT lumbar spine BMD cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis among older Chinese men can be the same as that of older Chinese women, both much lower than the value for Caucasians
For older Caucasian women and men, the QCT (quantitative CT) lumbar spine (LS) bone mineral density (BMD) threshold for classifying osteoporosis is 80 mg/ml. It was recently proposed that, for older East Asian...
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Open AccessRadiological diagnosis of prevalent osteoporotic vertebral fracture on radiographs: an interim consensus from a group of experts of the ESSR osteoporosis and metabolism subcommittee
When a low-energy trauma induces an acute vertebral fracture (VF) with clinical symptoms, a definitive diagnosis of osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) can be made. Beyond that, a “gold” radiographic standar...
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Correction to: Revision of the 1994 World Health Organization T-score definition of osteoporosis for use in older East Asian women and men to reconcile it with their lifetime risk of fragility fracture
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Revision of the 1994 World Health Organization T-score definition of osteoporosis for use in older East Asian women and men to reconcile it with their lifetime risk of fragility fracture
The 1994 WHO criterion of a T-score ≤ -2.5 for densitometric osteoporosis was chosen because it results in a prevalence commensurate with the observed lifetime risk of fragility fractures in Caucasian women ag...
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East Asians’ T-scores for the diagnosis of osteoporosis should be calculated using ethnicity- and gender-specific BMD reference ranges: justifications
The 2013 ISCD consensus recommended a Caucasian female reference database for T-score calculation in men, which says “A uniform Caucasian (non-race adjusted) female reference database should be used to calculate ...
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Much lower prevalence and severity of spine degenerative changes among older Chinese women than among older Caucasian women and its implication for the interpretation of lumbar spine BMD T-score for Chinese women
The prevalence and severity of spine degenerative changes have been noted to be lower among older Chinese women than among older Caucasian women. Spine degenerative changes associated with marginal osteophytos...
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Estimation of osteoporosis prevalence among a population is reasonable only after the concerned reference bone mineral density database and cutpoint T-score have been validated
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Conversion of osteoporotic vertebral fracture severity score to osteoporosis T-score equivalent status: a framework and a comparative study of Hong Kong Chinese and Rome Caucasian older women
We explored how the severity of radiological osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) can be converted to the equivalent T-score values.
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Further evidence supports a much lower prevalence of radiographic osteoporotic vertebral fracture in Hong Kong Chinese women than in Italian Caucasian women
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Much lower prevalence and severity of radiographic osteoporotic vertebral fracture in elderly Hong Kong Chinese women than in age-matched Rome Caucasian women: a cross-sectional study
Many earlier studies reported that East Asians and Caucasians have similar radiographic osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) prevalence. Since elderly Chinese’s osteoporotic hip fracture prevalence is half (o...
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Elderly men have much lower vertebral fracture risk than elderly women even at advanced age: the MrOS and MsOS (Hong Kong) year 14 follow-up radiology results
MrOS MsOS (Hong Kong) studies year 14 follow-up shows for subjects without baseline osteoporotic vertebral deformity, women’s incident vertebral fracture (VF) rate was twice that of men. For subjects with vert...
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Recognizing osteoporotic vertebral deformity on frontal view radiograph: a cohort analysis and a pictorial review
Opportunities exist to detect osteoporotic vertebral deformities (VDs) on frontal radiograph (FR) indicated for lung or abdominal diseases, while literature have been mostly based on lateral radiograph (LR). T...
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Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MR technique for in-vivo liver imaging at 3.0 tesla
To evaluate Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MRI for liver imaging at 3.0-T.
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Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MR Technique for Liver Imaging at 3.0 Tesla: an Evaluation of Different Offset Number and an After-Meal and Over-Night-Fast Comparison
This study seeks to explore whether chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect liver composition changes between after-meal and over-night-fast statuses.
