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

Angelo Licata

doi:10.3949/ccjm.76a.08041

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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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