In the 89 patients with BMD measurements of the spine and hip, 24 (26.9%) had osteoporosis of the hip or spine as defined by a T score of 2.5 or less, and 45 patients (50.6%) had osteopenia (T score 1.0 to 2.5). In the subset of 53 patients who also had the BMD of the ...
Thirty-six postmenopausal women above 50 years of age with a wrist fracture no older than two years, healed at inclusion (no plaster cast), with osteopenia (t-score < 1.5) [1] and domiciled in the Oslo region were recruited at baseline from the on-going RCT. The patients were ...