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Pre-screening for osteoporosis with calcaneus quantitative ultrasound and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry bone density

Calcaneal quantitative ultrasonography (QUS) is a useful prescreening tool for osteoporosis, while the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the mainstream in clinical practice. We evaluated the correlation between QUS and DXA in a Taiwanese population. A total of 772 patients were enrolled and...

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Autores principales: Yen, Chia-Chi, Lin, Wei-Chun, Wang, Tzu-Hao, Chen, Guan-Fan, Chou, Da-Ying, Lin, Dian-Min, Lin, Shu-Yuan, Chan, Min-Ho, Wu, Jia-Ming, Tseng, Chin-Dar, Huang, Yu-Jie, Lee, Tsair-Fwu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8333105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34344965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95261-7