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Bone density vs bone quality: What’s a clinician to do?

Angelo Licata, MD, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2009, 76 (6) 331-336; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.76a.08041
Angelo Licata
Director, Center for Space Medicine
Consultant, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Metabolic Bone Center, Cleveland Clinic
Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism
Editor-In-Chief, National Osteoporosis Foundation Osteoporosis Clinical Updates
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Studies of the epidemiology of osteoporosis and of drug treatments for it have challenged the concept that denser bone means stronger bone. Bone strength or resistance to fracture is not easily measured by routine densitometry, being a function of both density and quality.

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  • ↵* The author has disclosed that he has received honoraria from the Eli Lilly, Merck, and Novartis companies for teaching and speaking.

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